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Mr. Fox's Fantastic Sets
Bean's Annexe
Things aren't looking so rosy by the time Mr. Fox, Kylie and Ash find themselves cornered in Bean's farmyard with only native cunning and some natty Nacho Libre masks to fall back on. The menacing yard was inspired by Lowry and Anderson's trips into the English countryside to visit battery farms, and was one of more than 20 sets running concurrently during production. Twenty-five animators worked to produce, on average, two minutes of footage a week, with Anderson linked and able approve shots in real-time. According to producer Abbate, a stop-motion veteran with The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride on her CV, technology has revolutionised stop-mo direction. "On Nightmare there was no email," she remembers. "We didn't use digital, so you didn't know until a week later whether the shot would work. Wes doesn't delegate so we had to make sure he was always hooked in." And the results? Well, go see for yourself.
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