Is this Elliot or Mark writing?* This double-duty blogging gets very confusing at times....

*(I'd wager that it's Elliot, but I could be wrong....)
Will Walton | 08.30.04 - 3:34 pm | #

A Nightmare Before Christmas was claymation, not CGI. I'm a fogey when it comes to animation (I dabbled in it when I was in college), so I have to speak up for the guys who spent hours replacing the heads and incrementally bending arms on the Jack Skellington doll...
eadfrith | 08.30.04 - 6:00 pm | #

Quite right, eadfrith, and I actually prefer the intricate claymation. That's why I wrote "CGI/animation," not just "CGI".
Elliot B | Homepage | 08.31.04 - 1:03 am | #

sorry - thought the slash was a dash.
eadfrith | 08.31.04 - 12:48 pm | #

Have you seen any of the 'Wallace and Grommit' programs or the movie 'Chicken Run?' Those are my faves; I highly recommend them.
Mark H | 08.31.04 - 3:37 pm | #

Wallace & Grommit was claymation, a newfangled polymer clay is used these days & it's applied to a moveable frame, but Nightmare was stop motion - different animal, really. Jack Skellington had dozens of heads. Elliot, have you seen Chicken Run? Very, very funny! Watch it, then watch The Great Escape & then watch CR again. You'll laugh til you snort!

And Monsters, Inc had the absolute best fade out in an animated film - heck, in any film - in recent memory. I can not wait for The Incredibles, the next Pixar movie.

My nephew just quit everything to move to Florida to go to computer animation school! I'm so stoked for him. And I made him promise to let me do voices & write songs for his projects. This'll be fun!
Gene Branaman | 08.31.04 - 10:09 pm | #