"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is Hollywood's first full-length model animation, and it is also a typical retro animation attempt.
The film was made entirely of clay models, and the prop-making process was extremely large. As many as 227 puppets were produced behind the scenes, including vampires, werewolves, ghosts, monsters, mummies, freaks, and many others. Common puppet image. In terms of models, in order to match the various actions and expressions of the characters in the play, there are as many as thousands of models. The protagonist Jack alone has more than 400 model heads.
The filming of the film uses one frame of steady state shooting, and continuous playback is like an activity, so it is also called a kind of "animation". But this kind of animation shooting is very time-consuming, and it often takes three working days to complete a five-second frame.
Excluding the complicated process of making models, the audience can recognize the fine textures of the scenery and characters in the film. With the lighting of different directions, the characters' hairs are clearly visible.
