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From ComingSoon.net ...
Achieving the Look of Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Even among animated films, Fantastic Mr. Fox looks unique.
In a field dominated by computer generated animation, Wes
Anderson's new film stands apart even from other stop-motion
movies.
Anderson began creating this unique look long before a single
set was built, or an anthropomorphic fox was posed in front of
a camera.
"We started by developing a color theory for the film," explains
Nelson Lowery, the film's production designer, "It was a limited
color palate, quite unusual for an animated film. There was no
blue or green. [It was mostly] autumnal colors."
This posed a slight difficulty for the team. "When you make a
palate like that, when you interject grey it would become a
new color. While grey would just be grey in any normal movie,
once it's against those warm colors it becomes sort of purple,
or slightly blue, or cold feeling." Despite this, Lowery is
positive about the effect it created: "It was set up at the
beginning, and it was very restrictive, so it was quite a
challenge at first, but I think it paid off."
With this 'color theory' in place, Lowery began work on the
sets. "When you go to design a film, and you have everything
to draw upon, it's kind of nice to have a point of reference,
and Wes likes to do that for sure."
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