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...second a day. That's about as much of this stop-motion animation epic as any one of the film's 30 animators at Aardman Studios in Bristol, England, could produce. Stop motion, as used in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Park's 2000 hit Chicken Run, is essentially a series of still photographs (running through the movie projector at 24 frames a second), and each tableau, which may contain dozens of Plasticine characters, must be posed and shot before the next one is begun. The animator's job is to get the humor and humanity in each shot...
Like Park, who has fiddled with modeling clay and stop motion since he was a kid in Lancashire 40 years ago, the animators seem to be channeling their inner child, the boy (or girl) genius who loved to play with clay. And they know they are part of a glorious anachronism, an ancient craft. "I love The Incredibles," Box, a co-director, says of Pixar Animation Studios' CG hit, "but that's like a Ferrari. Wallace & Gromit is a massive antique tractor. We want that thumby, handmade, handcrafted look...
Harvard football may be slow to get rolling, but once it lumbers into motion, it has a lot of momentum backing...
...Bird flu is a crisis that's unfolding in slow motion. We know for certain that it has killed 60 people. It may be years, even decades before it spreads easily from human to human and becomes pandemic. But if that happens this year, we're in trouble...
...tough because it all seemed to be happening in slow motion,” McDavitt said. “Our girls were so focused on just getting the ball out of our defensive zone that a few of our passes were just inches...