Nov 16, 2009

The Fantastic Mr. Fox Meets the Nikon D3


The "Fantastic Mr. Fox" stop motion movie, just released, was shot completely with the Nikon D3.

35 workstations; 5,229 shots; 621,450 frames; 120GB data per day (18.5TB total).

One lazy director (jk) supervising the whole thing from his remote couch in Paris. :)

Here's a short "making of the movie" video, on wired.com.

Anybody making a movie with your DSLR? :)

And how much time and money do you suppose they saved on camera costs compared to yesterday's stop-motion cameras that would have been used, plus film processing, plus editing? I'd love to see more behind-the-scenes about this movie.

P.S. I love that the movie characters have "real" voices, while one of the guys who talks about making the movie has a cartoon voice. :)