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Stop Motion and 3-D … Meet Coraline

By Rodney - October 27, 2008 - 06:47 America/Montreal

Neil Gaiman is a masterful writer and captures the whimsical and unreal in a way that makes you feel they are real and not just in his worlds. So to hear his novel Coraline is being translated to film, I am encouraged.

Now to hear it will combine stop motion animation in conjunction with the new 3d technologies. I am elated.

Yahoo offers up:

“Coraline” is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s best seller, which follows a young girl who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. The film opens wide on February 6.

The clips shown Friday include the sequence where Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) discovers and enters the alternate world. In that environment, Coraline encounters the “Other Mother” (Teri Hatcher), who tries to keep her from going home, as well as a variety of characters who perform circus-style acts. In another scene, the girls run from the home, but as Coraline distances herself, the colors and setting seems to wash away.

Coraline is one of the Gaiman novels I have yet to read, though its been on my radar. Gaiman performs on a different level in literature, and this excites me that these wonderful stories would find their way to screen, however on that same note I worry that translation of this master’s work would be lost when brought to film – as so many novels to film do.

Visually, I would love to see this footage that they were treated to. They all appear to be very happy with the marriage of stop motion and stereoscopic 3-D.

I love that name…”stereoscopic 3-D”. It sounds like the revolutionary leaps in the early 70s and I always see it in some dated font and a deep orange and white. Now presented in STEROSCOPIC 3D!!

Anyways. I can’t want to get a good look at this film for its story AND the technology.