There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. |
There was great news that it had risen to number one but at the same time the awful news that all the history, all the archives, sets and models had been lost in the fire. |
They came to us because they love what we do, and the way we do it, |
They're all spinning around in a glass case, and we just couldn't access the bunnies, ... So we thought, 'Well, why not just create them digitally?' We gave [The Moving Picture Company] a clay rabbit, and they scanned it into the computer and animated them. |
This is just ridiculous, to be up against some of the other directors here tonight. |
This rabbit is really a vicious monster. He doesn't eat people, but instead saves his dirty work for vegetables. In many ways, we're the world's first vegetarian horror movie. |
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion. |
We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all. And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion. |
We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable. |
We chatted about different movies we loved, the aspects of characters, |
We could have done the 'Were-Rabbit' in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional (stop-motion) techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression. |
We could have done the 'Were-Rabbit' in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional [stop-motion] techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression. |
We could have done the Were-Rabbit in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional (stop-motion) techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression. |
We didn't know each other were going to wear these ties. It's a bit of an embarrassment. |
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. |