The stop-motion technique is halfway between animation and life action and has difficulties from both of those two techniques.
Trunk utilised numerous animation, live action and projection techniques to complete the visual performance.
We had family films and animation and action films, but we didn't have one that captured that audience who don't normally go".
The X Factor creator's production company Syco will work with Animal Logic Entertainment on a series of animated and hybrid animation-live action movies.
Festival organizers said they would consider all types of work, including animation, live-action, documentary, interactive and experimental.
"The Smurfs," which stars Neil Patrick Harris, is an animation-live action hybrid in the style of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" and is about Smurfs on the loose in Manhattan.
Another must-see animation: An action-packed stop-motion interpretation of Handel's Zadok the Priest.
Thereafter, the full-motion videos (FMVs) were created by filming stop motion animations of action figures, which were then rendered to completed pictures with computer graphics (CG) tools.
Since Narissa appears in three media: hand drawn animation, live-action and computer animation, May had to make sure that the costume would be the same throughout in terms of "color, shape and texture".
No longer are only Pixar animations and action blockbusters getting the tricked-out treatment even revered directors like Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog are embracing the trend.
