Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol
03 November 2009 @ 17:37
On 6 November 2009 Disney are releasing Robert Zemick's stop animation film of the famous Dickens story, A Christmas Carol.
This is the film that Robert Zemeckis thought he would never make.
For the movie, Jim Carrey went before computerised cameras wearing just leotards fitted with electronic sensors and created a series of distinctive characterisations such as the timeless old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is the centrepiece of the story, including the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, as well as images of the younger Scrooge.
Using variations in facial expressions and body language and subtly altering his vocal performances, Carrey created all of these people, thereby enabling Zemeckis and his team of visual-effects wizards to digitally create Victorian costumes and settings for these characters and transform them into animated beings that are — in Zemeckis’s words — “more realistically alive.”
The new movie is launched this Friday and we're really looking forward to what promises to be another masterpiece from Zemeckis.
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