Director Henry Selick is pretty much the reigning king of stop-motion animation, with Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach on his resume. In his new film Coraline, Selick ups the degree of difficulty by adding 3-D to the already rigorous stop-motion process.
I sat down with Selick to talk about what it takes to be an animator, how he feels about computers in animation and the special challenges of animating Coraline.
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