Coraline.

Recently I watched a film called 'Coraline' a feature length stop motion film produced with handmade puppets and painted sets. I knew after watching this a few times previously that their was the basic idea that I was aware of it being the puppets, but I've always wanted to research into it further, such research is on 'how it's made' videos, accessed on the DVD itself or on streaming sites such as Youtube.
Extraordinarily there were in fact 6, 300 replacement face pieces with over 207, 000 possible facial reactions. A catastrophic amount of attention to detail and expense went into the making of the puppets who made up each scene. Each animator completed 2 to 7 seconds of animation a week with over 70 cast members working on wig design, puppeteering etc for the 24fps film to take place.
 

 With production of ideas, Coraline's characters had to be perfect. It can be seen in the videos that the character development was key to the research of Coraline with the overall sketches and drawings to start off the ideas. Coraline herself had to be carefully considered, how conceptual can the plans be? Such characteristics as her blue hair were later added to the production plans to produce a more vibrant idea.