A Town Called Panic Film : Animation Complete !

As bloggered in a previous post … animators Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar have been working on a feature length version of A Town Called Panic. Well now they have finished the animation side and here is a list of what goes into making a feature stop motion animation.. for them anyway. 

 

260 days of preparation and shooting

144 000 images constituting 915 plans

40 external hard drives of 500 gigabytes each

100 kilos of vis

200 litres of wood glue

24 000 sticks a skewer (for attaching decorations and supporting figures)

60 kilos of plasticine (to fix the figurines on the sets)

45 000 miniature bricks

1200 blades cuter

300 sticks of hot glue

1500 figures (including 300 “Cow-Boy”, 300 “Indian” and 250 “horse”)

280 gallons of latex

1000 clips linen

2 semi-trailers (to move the sets of Brussels in Luxembourg)

300 kilos of coffee

3000 Sneakers, 3000 Leo and 200 packets of hundred Wafers

… 1 litre of super-glu

 

You can find out more HERE at there blog. 

Ponyo On A Cliff By The Sea Trailer

Hayao Miyazake’s new animation filum (following other clasics such as Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle) is called Ponyo on a cliff by the sea.. and heres the trailer featured on some japan television prog’. You have to try and block out all the yabbering over the top of it and focus on the actual animation to get an idea of how beautifully brilliant this may be. 

It follows a five-year old boy and his relationship with a girl-princess fish who longs to become human. 

Released in Japan in July 2008 … so hopefully we don’t have to wait too long to get it over here.