[HarlowStar]
BRITISH animation studio Aardman’s latest stop-motion masterpiece The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is proving to be another smash hit at the box office – but few viewers will realise just how much work went into producing each scene.
The film took a staggering five years to make. And according to Harlow-born animator Richard Haynes, who has worked for the Bristol-based studio for almost three years, the painstaking production process yielded a mere six seconds of footage per week. …
Each foot-high puppet used in the film had to be repositioned up to 24 times per second of footage to create the illusion of near-seamless movement, with 33 animators working flat-out to piece together the 88-minute movie – the first of its kind to be shot in 3D.
“As it’s the closest animation gets to live action it’s important to make each puppet’s movement and personality as seamless and believable as possible, especially when the film’s being shot in high-definition 3D,” Richard explained. …
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