Why did you decide to make Coraline in 3-D?
When I directed The Nightmare Before Christmas for Tim Burton, a few
hobbyists would take 3-D stills [of the set]. We'd look at them and feel
like we weren't really sharing the full experience with the audience.
Stop-motion is all real stuff — real puppets and textures and miniature
trees and all that — and it wasn't all getting on the screen in 2-D.
What was the hardest sequence to film?
When Coraline sees a garden brought to life, it was a challenge just to
figure out how to get flowers to grow and not use CG. And the final
confrontation between Coraline and the Other Mother, who in her final
form is a spider witch. There's a web that's springy and moving and a
helluva challenge to design.
There's a buxom character voiced by Dawn French who performs on stage in
just a bikini bottom and elaborate, um, pasties. What led to that choice?
Well, she's reenacting a famous work of art, Botticelli's The Birth of
Venus. She had to wear the appropriate costume! Some people were
concerned about that scene, but ultimately the ratings board had no
problem at all. You know, it's not going to corrupt anyone's morals or
anything. It's just funny.
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