CORALINE SNEAK PEEK WEEK - Day 2: Crafting the World of Coraline

Rotten Tomatoes and IGN are holding a special event, showing a series of exclusive featurette about the making of Henry Selick's next animated masterpiece, "Coraline" over the course of the week. Here is Day 2, which touches on how Coraline's world is made.

"Coraline", a dark tale by Neil Gaiman, details a young girl that has found a supposedly idealized copy of her home, but not everything is as it seems. It takes considerable wit and imagination to bring the strange and wonderful sights of "Coraline" to life, but Henry Selick and his crew at Laika Entertainment House are up to the task!

This featurette features interviews with Henry Selick, the director, and Neil Gaiman, the writer, discussing the creative process needed to bring the lurid descriptions of Coraline's world to life, and shows exclusive clips from the film and footage of the production, displaying the creative team's incredible vision.

This clip is shown courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes and IGN. "Coraline" ©2008 Focus Features and Laika Entertainment House.

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[BlueRainsRed]

ok i love this movie the way it was made the animation in the movie all of that i think is amazing but i have a question and i dont want people jumping my throat but does anyone think the ending of the movie the whole"game" sequence makes it go really downhill as the storylinei mean i havent read the book, like i said the stop motion animation is amazing thats basicallhy well mostly why i got it..but the story i thought was so great and was leading somewhere amazing and then it just...

lola

[UberMan5000]

The book ended the same way, with Coraline competing against her Other Mother in a "finding" game. It makes up the entire third act of the book.

Chapter VIII, Page 91:

Coraline's mouth watered. "You like games," she said. "That's what I've been told."

The other mother's black eyes flashed. "Everybody likes games," was all she said.

"Yes," said Coraline. She climbed down from the counter and sat at the table.

Etc etc. I can't type the whole thing, but you get the idea. You should read it. ;)

[Z8GN8AL]

Coraline would be freaking awesome if it was made with live action instead of stop-motion,scare the crap out of me lol

[UberMan5000]

No it wouldn't, it would look like a bunch of blokes in costumes trying really hard to do what this movie is doing. There are things you can do in animation that you can't do in live action, and a lot of them are done in Coraline.

[CheekyThrill]

My son is almost 7, and he loves this movie! He understands that the "other mother" isn't Coraline's mother. The button eyes give it away, lol. We love this dark, creepy, magical movie!

[crazyteensJHH]

Wow, I couldn't do that. I would work for about three days, go crazy, crush everything with a sledge hammer, and then get fired. They did an AMAZING job, it is a great movie.

[kamivideos343]

i hope they make a sequle

[sspirits8]

Stop motion films such as Coraline are magical. :)))))

[MsPikaGirl]

I would do ANYTHING to be able to go down to the studios and play with the puppets and mini sets ^O^

I know theyre not meant to be played wiht but COME ON! I know you want to..

[spitzou40]

tro collllllllllll

[chiakikun222]

Oh my twitchy, witchy girl. I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge. I give you bowls of ice... cream. I give you lots of kisses. I give you lots of hugs. But I never give you sandwiches with grease and worms and mung... beans. 

I love this movie :)

[44454469]

Excellent film.

[TheHorrorcity]

@UberMan5000 I was a scary movie after I watched I was thinking if it would have been a live action movie it would have been a bonafide horror movie

[siclone005]

That is the most amazing kind of way to make a movie. Really.

[punca]

@BlueRainsRed i never read the book eather but i thought the ending was great!

[doody123poop]

1 how did they don that