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Don’t get me wrong this is wonderful work, But why go to all the trouble of stop motion only to do CG on top? I don’t see any gain in quality or production advantages.
Regarding the faces, I agree.. still, the clothes and props and most of environments are the real thing. Pretty!
Full 3d making of(generally comp breakdown) of are so boring that its cooler to have “manual techniques” for the making of.
i really like the overall look, you can do the same in 3D, but its cool they change technique sometimes. you can do Anything in 3D, there is no magic anymore. when i see this, i feel like Christmas , lol.
The production company wanted a more intimate and hand made look to the film, so stop motion was the natural technique to use. Unless you have a fantastic amount of money, CG can very often lead to a sterile look.
Only the faces are CG, so I would not say that there is much CG “on top”. When we animated and rendered the CG faces we obviously emulated the look of the original puppets. But the great thing about using CG faces was that we could get a level of sophistication in the faces that would have been impossible to do in puppet animation.
I think it turned into a very successful hybrid, playing on the benefits of both techniques, but still pushing it a bit forward in terms of technology.