stylized debut work
"Elf Hotel" was confirmed very early. In 2006, Sony was preparing to shoot an animated film on "The Intimacy of Monsters and Humans". At that time, Sony confirmed that Anthony Staci, who had filmed "The Jungle Attack", and David Faith, who was active in the TV circle, would direct the film. However, the film was unsuccessful. In 2008, Sony recruited Jill Carlton, who was also one of the directors of "Jungle Counterattack", to direct the film. Unfortunately, it happened again, and Carlton left the crew as well. In the future, Sony continued to look for a director, until the appearance of Gendy Tartakovsky. In 2011, Gendy Tartakovsky appeared at Sony as the "sixth" director of the film, and soon, he signed an agreement with Sony to direct this difficult-to-have, and at the same time. It is also his first film.
In less than a year after arriving on the set, Gendy Tartakovsky rewrote the script and redesigned the characters and characters according to his own imagination. In terms of styling, Tartakovsky wanted the film to have an old, exaggerated, and fresh style, so he looked for inspiration from the works of the famous animator Tex Avery, and put The hand-drawn 2-bit animation style was transferred to the computer-modeled animated characters. Tartakovsky said: "I don't want to do realistic character design in the film, but want to bring that exaggerated style into the film, and then in turn affect the audience's intuitive and intuitive perception of the film. The feeling of the real world. I hope that after watching this movie of mine, people will say, oh my God, this is an animation that only Gendi can do. To be honest, it is very difficult to do that, especially Under the constraints of CG technology, it is almost impossible to create a distinctive personal style. If it is a hand-painted animation, there are still recognizable elements such as brushstrokes and lines, but in CG In animation, everything has to be made from the bottom. Sometimes, I feel that this style is a kind of limitation and torture for myself, but looking at the characters in the film, I can feel that they are It’s so important, and the relationship between me and the characters is so close. So I will still keep my spirits up and constantly revise and improve my design. I hope people can feel some different elements from it.”
Horror-Comedy
After becoming the director of the film, Gendy Tartakovsky set a "horror-comedy" tone in his heart. In Gendy Tartakovsky's view, the film needs to combine elements of horror and make people laugh. Tartakovsky said: "Before shooting, we made a very careful decision for the tone of the film, which was not to make a film that was offensive - whether it was horror or comedy, it didn't make a difference. People disgusted. And after the tone was settled, the rest was easy. With a room full of monsters, we could easily make enough jokes in it. I didn't want to do any physical comedy, Instead, I want to make a character comedy. That is, all the comedy elements must be launched from the character within the character, not superficial. I have many years of TV animation production experience, and I know that here only needs to be Doing 90% is enough, for the remaining 10%, the audience will go to the road to find and discover the beauty of it."
The dubbing of cartoons is the most critical part of making cartoons. If the dubbing fails, then the animation will fail. effect will be greatly reduced. For the film, Tartakovsky brought in big names like Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez and Steve Buscemi to voice the film. Because this group of people has a lot of experience in comedy performances, the dubbing is not a problem at all. Tartakovsky said: "Adam is a very fun guy, we found a lot of inspiration from his past films and put his expression on the animated characters. In this way, the characters come to life. .Adam is a very dedicated actor, he always talks to me about how to dub, how to use the voice to create this character. He gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas, and he also gave Dracula another character A life with a sense of joy. All of this is an accidental joy, because I didn't think about so much when I created this character. "
Tidbits
: The film's director Genndy Tartakovsky said in American animation circle has been working for nearly 20 years, this is his feature film debut.
The role of Dracula's daughter in the film was originally intended to be dubbed by Miley Cyrus, but due to scheduling conflicts, the role was later handed over to Selena Gomez.
· The film's release time is set for September 28, which is International Rabies Day.
·Sony has developed a video game called "Hotel Transylvania Social Game" based on the film, and put it on the game console and PC platform. In addition, Sony also released a mobile game called Hotel Transylvania Dash. In addition to the two games, Sony also released an APP for movies and books.
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