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Mars Attacks
"Mars Attacks!" was initially planned as a stop-motion project, much like director Tim Burton's earlier work "Nightmare Before Christmas". But this time the animated characters would need to exist in the real world with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan, among others. The plan was for ILM to composite the 15" armatured Martian puppets over various live-action plates. Meanwhile, technical hurdles kept popping up for the stop-motion unit, so I pursued doing a test of Martians which would be completely built and animated inside a computer. The test was successful and showed Tim that computer animation, and the array of digital tools we had to offer, would be the most effective way to blend his Martians into the live-action. Most importantly, it presented computer animation as viable a method as any other for creating complex character animations.
Source: Jim Mitchell / ILM
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