How was the stop motion animation "Inugashima" set in Japan's fictitious city "Megasaki" set up? Making is now open

"Grand Budapest hotel"Darjeeling expressSuch asWes AndersonDirector's latest work "ISLE OF DOGS (Inugashima)It is scheduled to be released in Japan on May 25, 2018. Making movies are released on YouTube as to how Dogogashima, a stop motion animation set in Japan, was made.

ISLE OF DOGS | Making of: Animators | FOX Searchlight - YouTube


Inogashima is a stop motion animation set in Japan 's imaginary city "Megasaki City". While dogs live in the works, the island of garbage called "Inogashima" is drawn as follows ... ...


These stage sets were made by human hands.


Where is the plane crashing ... ....


Like this.


Of course miniature is also a place for mayor Kobayashi to give a lecture. By moving the doll little by little, we will create one frame at a time.


"When you use dolls like dogs," expression "will bring life," said Wes Anderson.


A doll made of plastic or rubber ......


How to make it appear alive by "movement" becomes important.


Put a doll in front of the camera ......


Every time I move it I will check how it looks.


Move the doll many times to become distant on the set of greenback ... ...


Ultimately, VFX completes the image as if the character were living and moving spontaneously.


How is a human or a dog actually moving at the very beginning of animation production? It was said that it was discussed.



A storyboard is drawn ......


Timing of the character speaks and movements of the line of sight are decided. In comedy, the timing and the way of "between" is very important.


On top of that, the voice is cast by the actor ... ...


It will become a work that we see in a movie theater.


The shape of the mouth changes according to the content that the doll speaks, but at this time, the movement of the mouth with respect to one pronunciation is decided, and it seems that it is not necessarily moving at random.




In the plastic case, the face of the boy / Atari is arranged with a label such as "HERO" "HERO EYE BROWS UP SMALL" "ONE BROW UP ONE DOWN".


Eyes and mouth are separate parts ... ...


It creates various expressions by the combination of the face which is the base, eyes, mouth.



When using in production, change the parts each time. Of course, all these facial parts were made by craftsmen.


Various "face" arranged in a row


Dogs will also create facial expressions centered on mouth and eye movements as well.



Real stuff for studio.


Attach the camera to the back ... ...


The dog 's point of view was grasped and used as data.


Not only dogs but also human's 'way of walking' are the places where the character's character comes out, so it was made with commitment.





A scene where Atari faces with the dogs. The movement of Atari, which stretches in front of the dogs and stretches out, is made while actually comparing with human movements.


Atari movement that injured and dragged legs ... ...


"Movement" appearing in animation, such as the movement of juggling, is reality because it was created while being compared with the actual movement one by one.


Men appearing in the image are making a scene where juggling appears. On top of the inverted dog, the club floats like a Ferris wheel.


In the movie it is a short scene drawn as follows, but how does the club actually move in the air? It seems that it was also tested in reality.


What is this doing ......


Scene where the mechanism shorts and smoke rises.


"The movie was closed with the word" What kind of thought is a movie through human hand "sometimes exceeds the imagination of people".


Also, a cast interview "Voice actors who voice the character talks about the movie in the form of characters" has been released.

ISLE OF DOGS | Cast Interviews | FOX Searchlight - YouTube


I played "Chief"Brian CranstonYa


I played "Boss"Bill · Murray


"Rex"Edward Norton


The role of "nutmeg"Scarlett · JohanssonWe are talking about the movie.


Also, movies that can be seen in 360-degree images as to how the cast interview images were created ......

360 ° | ISLE OF DOGS | Behind The Scenes (in Virtual Reality) | FoxNext VR Studio - YouTube


A 45-second clip focusing on Mayor Kobayashi has also been released.

ISLE OF DOGS | "Kobayashi's Isle of Dogs" Clip | FOX Searchlight - YouTube