{"id":6308,"date":"2018-02-17T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6308"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:14:09","slug":"poetry-in-stop-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6308","title":{"rendered":"POETRY IN STOP-MOTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h4 data-bind=\"text: articleSubtitle\">Wallace and Gromit creator goes prehistoric with latest flick<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Montreal Gazette, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">16 Feb 2018,\u00a0 <\/time>SANDY COHEN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2-img.pressreader.com\/pressdisplay\/docserver\/getimage.aspx?regionKey=sArCKpvpVO7npn8lNFdy7w%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"150\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>As a child, Nick Park was enchanted by the animated dinosaurs in the 1966 movie One Million Years B.C.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">LOS ANGELES The kooky caveman characters that come to life in Early Man have been kicking around in Nick Park\u2019s imagination for decades.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Long before he created Wallace and Gromit, Park was taken with Ray Harryhausen\u2019s animated dinosaurs in the 1966 Raquel Welch movie One Million Years B.C.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI just couldn\u2019t believe real dinosaurs moving around with people,\u201d Park said, recalling the film he saw as an 11-year-old that would inspire his love of animation.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Early Man translates Park\u2019s vision into an epic claymation adventure about a tribe of colourful cave people who stake the future of their homeland on a soccer showdown, despite not knowing how to play.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">An ambitious young caveman, Dug, and his loyal pet warthog, Hognob, believe the plucky tribe can prevail.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Early-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6309 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Early-Man-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Early-Man-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Early-Man.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a prehistoric underdog sports movie before,\u201d Park mused.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">U.K.-based Aardman Studios tapped its largest production team yet \u2014 with nearly 40 animators and sets working at once \u2014 to make Early Man, which uses stopmotion animation techniques essentially unchanged since Harryhausen\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">It\u2019s a slow and painstaking process to bring clay characters to life.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cWe\u2019ve used some of the most advanced filmmaking techniques in post-production, together with stop-motion, which is as old as cinema itself,\u201d said animation director Merlin Crossingham.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Stop-motion animation (or \u201cstop-frame,\u201d as Park calls it) creates the illusion of movement through a series of still images. For Early Man, Aardman\u2019s team of artists built a cast of puppets based on Park\u2019s sketches that serve as the film\u2019s actors. Each seven-inch-tall silicone puppet has a jointed metal skeleton inside so it can move.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThey\u2019re like expensive action figures,\u201d Crossingham said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The faces are made of modelling clay \u2014 except for the noses and eyes, which are hard plastic and serve as \u201cgrab points\u201d for animators while changing the puppet\u2019s expression.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Mouldable brows and more than two dozen removable and interchangeable mouths allow for a variety of looks.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Animators pose the puppets for each frame \u2014 every movement, every gesture \u2014 with 24 frames in each second of film. Mouth movements are synced to pre-recorded vocal performances. (Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and Maisie Williams lend their talents here.) For every shot, the puppets are bolted into place on exquisitely detailed sets that stand about two feet high.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cGetting about five seconds of finished film is a really good week,\u201d said animation director Will Becher.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Because the process is so timeconsuming, artists make duplicates of every set and puppet so multiple animators can work on various shots simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Park also personally worked with the vocal performers, something he wasn\u2019t always comfortable doing.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI used to find it quite nerveracking working with actors, especially if they were quite famous actors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI find it much easier to manipulate a puppet or a clay character, because they do as they\u2019re told. 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