Stop Motion October: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

by Rebecca Fisher

Introduction:

There’s something innately spooky about the idea of dolls moving on their own, and as such, creepy stories are often best suited for the tiny manikins of stop-motion animation. Whilst traditional 2-D animation has been almost totally replaced with 3-D computer animation when it comes to big-screen films, there’s still a popular niche market for the intricacies of stop-motion. Created from real objects on real sets under real lighting, the technique relies on figu...