"Frankenweenie" was filmed in London in 2010. The crew built a huge workshop for this film. In this workshop, they created a family loft, a cemetery and an interior view of a high school campus. After arranging the work items and assigning personnel, the entire studio was divided into 30 independent areas to shoot the plot and shots of the film. The protagonist of the film—the puppy of Sparkle’s doll was made to be quite "huge"—compared to the size of the character doll in the film, the size of the sparkle is very shocking. When making the characters, Bolton used the same method as in the filming of " Zombie Bride ", first using stainless steel as the skeleton, and then using silica gel outside the skeleton to make the body, and finally covering it with cloth and hair. After the captured still pictures are imported into the computer, they are processed by CG to get a frame of image. Because the joints of many characters are very small, there are no ready-made bolts and nuts to buy on the market. The crew specially invited a Swiss watchmaker to make bolts and nuts by hand with his own tools and techniques.
Rick Heinrichs, the art director who has worked with Bolton for many years, participated in the whole process of designing the scene, making dolls and post-production. He said that many scenes in the film, such as small towns and streets, are extremely complicated. Scene. It is very complicated to show both a sense of reality and a Bolton-style darkness in the film. In the production of dolls, apart from magnifying the proportions of the puppy sparks, everything else is made strictly in accordance with the proportions of the characters. The design inspiration for the small town came from the place where Bolton grew up, to be precise, a common small town in the Southwestern United States after the war. The design of some surreal facilities and objects comes from " Edward Scissorhands ".
