Because it's modern, we dare to take time-lapse pictures. How to create visuals that have a sense of reality. Domestic stop-motion animation “GON, THE LITTLE FOX” making vol.1
This year's new stop-motion animation "GON, THE LITTLE FOX" is attracting attention. Based on Nankichi Niimi's masterpiece fairy tale " Gongitsune ", it has been made into a film with a unique interpretation. It is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2019, and is currently in full production.
The director is Kenji Yashiro (belongs to Taiyo Kikaku TECARAT). While working as a commercial director, he has also directed `` Norman the Snowman: Aurora in the North Country '' (13), `` The Moon of a Sleepless Night '' (15), and `` Norman the Snowman: On a Night of Shooting Stars ''. (16) and other short films shown in planetariums have produced hits.
``Gon, The Little Fox'' is produced by Taiyo Kikaku, a video production company that also operates CINEMORE. This series uses the amount of information unique to in-house production, and follows the process of creating a domestically produced short stop-motion animation, which is rare these days.
Index
- What is stop motion animation?
- The two main characters, Gon and Heiju
- A new studio created for this work
- Elaborate and bold miniature sets create unique visuals
What is stop motion animation?
Stop-motion animation is also called "stop-motion" in Japan. This is a video technique in which the dolls are moved little by little, photos are taken, and the photos are stitched together to create an animation.
In ``Gon,'' 24 photos are used to create one second of footage. At this time, one photo is called "one frame."
Needless to say, the mainstream of Japanese animation today is hand-drawn and CG. However, stop motion, which uses real sets and puppets and creates movement by touching them directly with human hands, has a unique presence that comes from the accumulation of a huge amount of analog work.
In recent years, theater works such as ` `KUBO/The Secret of the Two Strings '' (16) and `` Isle of Dogs '' (18) and the Netflix work `` Rilakkuma and Kaoru-san '' (19) have been released, and if you are a hardcore stop-motion fan, There are more and more opportunities to see it. It can be said that it is a method that is gaining attention again precisely because digitalization is progressing in modern times.
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