How To Make A Stop Motion Movie

Bunny and the Bull director Paul King spills the beans

A Barrel of Laughs

The Cliché: Crossing the divide somewhere between cartoon and live action, stop motion animation is usually flourished for comedic effect.

If it’s not an all-out stop motion feature, it’s a cameo jerky ghost-type thing or a barbaric space-age board game (“Let the Wookie win!”).

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Paul King:Bunny and the Bull has got serious heart to it. It is about somebody having a mini-breakdown, and processing this terrible thing.

I didn’t want to just, it’s not just comedy, there’s something else there.

There’s some big emotional bits to do, which Ed Hogg does really well. He’s one of those characters where you just want to shake him and go, ‘Come on! Can’t you see what you’ve got?’, and I think that’s what Bunny thinks of him as well.”

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    • Comex

      Nov 12th 2009, 15:12

      I don't want to seem to be a nit-picker, but several of the examples of stop-motion given in this article are not stop-motion at all. For example, virtually all the FX in "Mary Poppins" were either practicals, traditional animation, or animatronics. The marshmallow man in "Ghostbusters" was a guy in a suit. Or am I missing something?

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