He didn’t want his film to look as slick as, say, The Corpse Bride or Coraline, which are so smooth as to look computer-animated. He instead wanted viewers to notice and embrace the medium of stop-motion itself, which had enchanted him as a child, especially in holiday shorts su...
“After being completely rejected at a local level, we were validated. It’s exactly what I had set out to do — prove that clay animation was still viable. Back then, 99% of animation for for children and families, or two-dimensional; this was neither — it was for adults, it wasn...