Sunday, the last day of Comic Con and I finally take some time to look at the dealers floor. I never get to enjoy just going to the convention anymore because I am running the presentations and helping run the booth.

Gentle Giant had the wedding set from Tim Burton`s Corpse Bride with all of the lead characters. I spent about 20 minutes talking to Pete Dodd, one of the animators. He gave me a demo on how the armatures work.

The main characters, when you count in the man-hours, cost $50,000 each

I do a quick count and ask, So we`re talking about a quarter to a half million right here behind the ropes?

Pete then took out a Allen wrench and fitted it into the Corpse Bride`s hair. He gave a twice and the mouth starts to open. He then put the Allen wrench into her right ear and adjusted the smile by tweaking the cheek action.

I have been doing stop motion since 1981 and have gone frame by frame through every Herryhausen movie and I have never seen anything like this.

I take a look at the set and I`m thinking no access which means ladders and boards and laying on your stomach for an hour between each frame. Gods Michelangelo had it easy.

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