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This week we see the release of The Boxtrolls on Blu-ray and DVD The film is a stop-motion animation based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow I got a chance to watch the film last night and I have to say that I have some mixed feelings about it. Visually the movie is[...]

The new animated movie, The Boxtrolls, from the makers of Coraline and Paranorman have a few statistics they would like to share with you… An animator typically took 1 week to complete 3.7 seconds' worth of footage, which is just under 90 individual frames The movie was made utilising 56 cameras and 892 lights including 68 fluorescent fixtures 190[...]

Between the two full length trailers for The Boxtrolls below (one for the US and one for the UK), we're getting a pretty clear picture of Laika's newest quirky stop-motion animated film. It's sort of a Tarzan/The Jungle Book esque tale wherein our human protagonist must attempt to integrate back in with his own species after[...]