“Feels good to know some cars are still made in the U. S. of A.”

“The only roofer in town without a sore back.”

carpalteeth:

Bunch of norman faces.

“Things. Green things.”

“Norman’s quilts are nicer than mine. But they are also smaller.”

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Norman’s friend Neil in the new stop-motion animated film “ParaNorman.”

Give this article a read, you guys! It is really amazing! :D

While the puppets aren’t that big, the sets are huge. The exterior of Norman’s Blithe Middle School is eight feet tall, twenty five feet wide. A set like this took three to four months to be constructed. It will appear in the film for 8 or 9 shots, less than a minute and a half. The largest set was the town’s Main street, which features a 60 feet long dolly shot in the film.

The rigging department is responsible for suspending the models on the sets for the animators to animate them. They also create units that move the sets around. For example, there is a moment in the climax where the earth opens up. The rigging department created a device which can move the ground. The smallest animate object rigged on Paranorman was a drop of spit which comes out of the zombies mouth. It basically looks like a very small drop of liquid on the end of a tiny stick (think very thin paperclip looking armature) which can be moved to create the animation. They also created a large complex rig to animates the dark clouds in the sky, animating them millimeter by millimeter with small wires.