Coraline DVD!

It is going to be so nice to be able to go through the movie and pause in spots to see all the weird little things you can't in the theater. I hope the extras are interesting! It really is unbelievable all the work that goes into something like Coraline, even when I worked on it! It takes SO many people to get it done. I suppose that's some of why it was so incredible to be a part of it. In the end, you almost feel like you went to war with all of your coworkers! It was a 4 year battle - and we won! A few interesting factoids - each one of those puppets cost between $25,000 and $50,000 a piece to make, and then there's the near constant upkeep as the animators use and abuse them to get their scenes shot. Whenever I was training someone on how to work on Coraline's hands, I would always tell them one of the hardest parts is just learning how to hold all the tiny parts in your hands and be able to work on them without dropping everything. We're talking accuracy of less than a millimeter on a lot of things! The sweaters in the movie are actual sweaters a woman hand knits with silk thread! Even all the sweaters folded and stacked in the store in town, which was probably on screen for less than a minute, were each knit with custom knitting needles the woman makes from thin wire. She came by the studio one day and everyone was completely mesmorized and basically shocked at what she does...and this is everyone that had been working on miniature things for years - now that's saying something! I'll try and find her web info and post it....

Here's a link to the short Focus video on Althea Crome (the knitter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muce8MVqTaU

Here's a link to her site on all of her knitting projects...

http://www.bugknits.com/