Transcript (en)

Well, I think people generally understand the basic concept behind what stop motion is, which is that we make thousands of these tiny little things. We put them on a set in front of lights and a camera, and you move them a tiny little bit. You take a picture, you move them a little bit more, you take a picture. That's the fundamental process of how these things are made. You know, like anything that's simple to understand, it is one of the most complicated things in the world. Even something as simple as a simple camera move, all those things, you know, a camera is inert just like everything else in this world that has to be programmed to move a frame at a time. And a camera in a miniature world is the size of a Prius. So, you know, having these big sweeping camera moves and having something that feels kind of elegant and alive and handheld and cinematic to do in stop motion is really challenging. But that's what this movie required. It needed to be this big sweeping epic, this big emotional story, and that meant we had to treat it like it was a big live action film.