The Making of Fantastic Mr Fox: The Making of the Motion Picture

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A worthwhile compendium of the creation of a gorgeous film and an inspiring companion piece. Auteur director Wes Anderson is not an animator, but proves that an outsider can work within the form to spectacular results. I have always dreamed of doing this, and Mr. Fox’s existence and production give me hope of that personal fulfillment in one of my possible futures as a writer/director. Devo Is Dead. Long Live Devo". Wired. May 2006. Archived from the original on November 7, 2011 . Retrieved August 1, 2011. Brody, Richard (November 2, 2009). "Wild, Wild Wes". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 7, 2014 . Retrieved March 14, 2022. And doing it on the industrial scale required for a studio motion picture—this one is being produced by Twentieth Century Fox Animation—is a gigantic undertaking.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 3, 2022 . Retrieved April 14, 2021. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop-motion animated comedy film directed by Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. The project is based on the 1970 children's novel by Roald Dahl. The cast includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson. The plot follows the titular character Mr. Fox, as his spree of thefts results in his family, and later his community, being hunted down by three farmers known as Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. The film was shot digitally (which, as the supplements demonstrate, is a huge advantage when doing stop-motion animation) so there really isn’t much in the way of source issues. The only mild problem I noticed was a slight bit of banding in a darker scene with a lone light source. But since this is also an issue on the Fox Blu-ray I’m going to venture a guess this mild artifact is inherent to the source material. Other than this slight (and I mean slight) problem there are no other digital artifacts: no noise, no compression, no pixilation, no nothing. Just a crisp, clean presentation. Like many great works of art, the work screams of deep care and has a hand-made quality to it. The photos in the book are first-class quality and the writing invites the reader into this fantastic world of animated puppets, how they're given life and character and presence.

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These puppets have joints at almost every spot that we have joints, but their heads are especially complex; without organic facial muscles to contract, the puppet makers had to craft remarkably intricate and tiny mechanisms to contract the characters’ faces into various expressions:

Fantastic Mr. Fox". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on January 30, 2017 . Retrieved March 5, 2021.It's not a book to be heavily critiqued or studied for its amazing literature. In fact, it's mainly pictures, but there are some interesting interviews as well. The armatures were then enclosed, along with the foam latex or silicone, inside the mold. This is one of half of a two part mold for Mrs. Fox's arm.