Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, New Animated Film by Henry Selick & Laika

by Scott Beale on December 26, 2007 · 6 comments

Here’s a sneak preview of “Coraline”, an animated version of the 2002 novella “Coraline” written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave Mckean. The film is directed by Henry Selick and is currently in production at the animation studio LAIKA Entertainment.

Slated for release in 2009, Coraline is Laika’s first feature length film and according to Ward at Drawn who works at Laika, it will be “the very first stop-motion feature to be shot stereoscopically with a dual digital camera rig for digital 3-D exhibition”.

UPDATE: There’s a hi-resolution version of the video on Neil’s website.

via Drawn!

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ectoplasmosis » Coraline
December 26, 2007 at 4:42 pm

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1 Steve Rhodes December 26, 2007 at 12:53 pm

There’s a better quality version of this in QT

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Video_Clips/Coraline_Sneak_Preview

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2 Scott Beale December 26, 2007 at 1:25 pm

Thanks Steve, I’ll update the post.

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3 Ward December 26, 2007 at 10:52 pm

Thanks for the mention! And just to let you know, it should be noted that the studio working on the feature is LAIKA Entertainment. LAIKA/house is the commercial division.

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4 Scott Beale December 26, 2007 at 10:56 pm

Thanks Ward, I’ve updated the post.

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5 piff smoke December 27, 2008 at 12:12 am

the film seems functionally identical to “mirrormask,” except with slightly different animation. why was coraline chosen to be digested into film before one of his much better books?

tl;dr coraline = waste of good art

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