Coraline..

[cvcgolf]

Just saw the movie "Coraline" in 3D and it was beautiful to look at. The 3D blew me away. Nice story to. Henry Selick did the movie. The same guy responsible for "Nightmare before Christmas" Here's a preview from youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7wxoqeVK0

[skizzerflake]

I saw it tonight and thought that it was excellent. The animation, both in its technical and artistic aspects was fine. Toward the end, I realized that I really liked the music, which had been "invisible" throughout the movie (a high compliment for movie music). I take it that the animation was a combination of digital and stop-motion with models, but it was done well enough that the two were seamless.

[strube]

I liked the movie, but the 3D glasses/movie combo gave me a pretty major headache and nasty eye strain that was apparent from dry redness the next morning. I am not sure the 3D is for me yet...

[skizzerflake]

I was wishing I had seen it in 3D. I saw it on a fairly small art house screen with mediocre sound and liked it anyway, but 3D must have been impressive. Having sat through a bunch of 3D flix, I don't think it would have bothered me.

[cvcgolf]

There was no digital effects at all. Just stop motion puppets only. It looked so amazing you thought it was digital..lol

[skizzerflake]

The credits indicated that that they used digital renderings for background.

[supervij]

If only the backgrounds were digital, then I'm still impressed. The stop-motion animation was so smooth that it looked like computer animation. My favourite stop-motion animated movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas, and in that flick, the characters move around very jerkily. You can see the stop-motion effects, but not in Coraline, not even a little! Incredible job.

And the 3D effect was wonderful! There were a more than a few moments when the 3D effect caused screams of fright and gasps of wonder in the audience (and in me). I didn't get a headache from it all.

The 3D stuff certainly has changed since the old days. Instead of stuff on the screen continually coming straight at you, there was more a feeling of real depth to the picture. I felt like there was a real distance between objects in the foreground and in the background. Very cool.

And the story was pure magic. While I didn't like Coraline's personality very much, I felt that the story was lovely with some mildly frightening moments. I would see it again in a heartbeat . . . if tickets to 3D presentations weren't so darn pricey. $14.50 CDN is way more than I would ever want to spend on a movie! (Fortunately, I spend far less watching movies at home, so this one was justified. :))

cheers,
supervij

[cvcgolf]

You know what..I screwed up. I was wondering if there was any digital effects used after reading this thread and I now agree that there were. When she goes through the little door, that whole tunnel effect was most likely digital as well as the spider web chase. I made the wrong call. I need some babes in bondage gear to spank me hard.

[j_garcia]

The Corpse Bride was also done by this same guy and the stop motion in that one was better than Nightmare Before Christmas.

[rosemary44]

it was so good :)

[j_garcia]

BD info released FYI:

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will bring the stop-motion fantasy film 'Coraline' to Blu-ray on July 21, day-and-date with the DVD release. The film will be presented in both its 2-D and 3-D versions on a two-disc edition, with 1.85:1 1080p VC-1 video accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.