Coraline | Can’t Sleep? Learn How This Movie Was Made

About this episode

This episode explores the production of the animated film Coraline, focusing on its stop motion techniques and the effort behind its creation.

Still awake? Might as well learn how this movie actually got made. In this episode, Benjamin Boster reads about Coraline(2009) and focuses on the production side of things. Henry Selick directed the project at Laika, using painstaking stop motion animation and early 3D photography techniques. There are hundreds of detailed sets and thousands of tiny, carefully built puppets, which sounds exhausting because it absolutely was. It’s calm, steady, and no whispering, just a straightforward look at the craft and effort behind one of the most technically impressive animated films of its time. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Coraline (film), Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_(film)), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Boster

Topics covered

• animation
• film production
• stop motion
• Coraline
• Henry Selick
• Laika
• movie making

Keywords

• Coraline
• stop motion animation
• Henry Selick
• Laika
• film production
• animated films
• 3D photography

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Laika, Wikipedia

Books & works: Coraline, Coraline (film)

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