But it's now set in Oregon as opposed to the Midwest, and Selick has added a local boy named Wylie to the cast, a move he says helps by giving Coraline someone to talk to. There are changes in Selick's adaptation, although the story remains essentially the same: A girl named Coraline discovers a passageway to a world much like our own that nonetheless seems better in many ways - until her "Other Mother" kidnaps her real parents and demands that Coraline stay. If it's animation, I think that it takes a little of the edge off the worst moments, but it keeps the Grimm's fairy tale quality," he says. At that time he managed to convince first the author and then producer Bill Mechanic that animation struck the right tone for the creepy kids tale. Selick says the long process of making the film began in 2000, before Gaiman's popular novella had been published. The schedule for finishing the film is tight - set to wrap in late summer or early autumn, the film is slated for a late-December Oscar-qualifying run, followed by a nationwide release on Feb. All this under the direction of James and the Giant Peach, and filming in a surprisingly nondescript industrial park office complex just outside the lush green environs of Portland.Īt the time of the set visit in late May, Selick says the film is two-thirds complete after about a year and a half of production, which followed a year of pre-production. Bucking the CG toon trend, Coraline combines old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques with the newfangled wonders of modern 3-D.
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Produced by Oregon-based Laika Ent., Coraline is an unusual movie in several respects. In Neil Gaiman's popular 2002 novella Coraline, a young girl discovers a hidden passageway in an old house to a strange and opposite "other" world - an experience not unlike visiting the "set" of the animated movie that will bring the book to the big screen.
Here lead animator Travis Knight checks the framing on Coraline. Coraline combines old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques with modern 3-D.
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