You have to see Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep! The stop-motion animation is extraordinary. Most of the objects that he animates are completely hand-made in a rough, imperfect way that gives them so much character. Clouds of cotton float, cotton skiiers glide down mountains made out of felt, Paris is imagined as a maze of toilet-paper rolls. As with Gondry's previous film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he doesn't use any special effects...every effect is created "in camera" (by the way he shoots).
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how did he film the clouds to be floating without special effects??
this is so cool. i can't wait to see the film!
he must have had invisible wires pulling the cotton up to make them look like they're flying above their heads.
there's this other scene where a guy looks like he's floating/flying above a city. instead of doing some special effects in post-production, he had the actor swimming in a tank of water and the tank was placed in front of a screen that projected the city scene...so as he swam in place in the tank, it looked like he was floating across this cityscape.
Tré cool!
The name of the artist who made some of the props for this film is Lauri Faggioni - you can see more of her work here http://laurifaggioni.com/
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