The super amazing Fantastic Mr. Fox

I just saw the new Wes Anderson film and I was BLOWN away!

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a full-length stop-motion animation feature. Meaning, it is an insane undertaking that only someone like Wes Anderson would take on. Every single thing in the film was made by hand. Just imagine such a creative mind having complete control over each detail of every frame of an entire movie. As Jason Schwartzman narrates in this little making-of featurette, "For the filmmakers, half the process of making the movie was figuring out how to make the movie without going nuts."

(worth heading over to Apple to watch in hi-def, along with the trailer and other extras.)

So, at 24 frames per second, and 87 minutes long...that's 125,280 individual hand-set frames? Wow. (I should also mention that, aside from the merits of being a staggering work in handmade design, this movie was everything you would expect from a Wes Anderson film. Impeccable writing, directing, acting, everything.)

I'm so glad that the torch of filmmaking by hand is being passed, after the stunning film Coraline made by Laika. Let the creative genius keep coming! (One twenty-fourth of a second at a time...)