A masterpiece movie of how nearly 900 dolls were made by hand at the movie "Inugashima" is on sale

I won the Silver Bear Award (Director's Prize) at the Berlin International Film FestivalWes AndersonA director's new work "Inogashima"Is scheduled to be released in Japan on May 25th (Friday), 2018. In Kogashima of stop motion animation, it is evident that each doll is made by hand and that the movie is made up of tremendous work from the making image released on YouTube.

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"All dolls are a series of options and choices in every aspect" "What kind of enjoyment is given to people watching, what is appropriate in the story, what is able to make the whole world of the movie the right shape, You have to think about whether it will be able to be done, "said Wes Anderson.


A man, Andy Gent, who wears this pair of glasses supervises everything about dolls at Inugagojima.


A blue door written "AMS ARCH MODEL STUDIO".


A doll production team for Kogajima came out of the building like a warehouse. It is quite a number.


According to Mr. Gent, he made a doll near 900 in making a movie.


Also, by expressing emotions by changing the face of the doll, it seems that thousands of parts were made just by face.


The dolls were originally made in prototypes ......


I will take the type.


Further coloring what took mold.


Most of the adjustments, such as detail adjustment, were done by hand. In recent years, 3D printing is often used in a modeling place, but in Inugashima it does not use 3D printing.


This is the state of the studio. The craftsmen work at the narrow place.



Character, once the design is decided ......


First of all I will make a prototype to take silicon type. Start from wire.


I will wrap around cloth like clay on the wire.


It gradually became a human-like feeling.


I will make details when the flesh becomes somewhat better.


It seems that he is making a boy who is the hero of the movie boy.



Of course, not only human characters but also dog characters are created manually by hand one by one.


Then, using these prototypes, we will make silicon type next.


Cormack · Mckee who supervises the silicon type part. It is important to know how to make a silicon type that reproduces details of prototype.


Take the mold for each part ... ...


Finally we will make the following parts of silicon.


Next timeArmatureParts to make.


An armature is a framework that can be moved using a ball joint or the like.


Some animals stiffen this framework, others may loosen as smooth movements are made.


Jessie Koven, a woman in the photo who supervises the armature part.


I will pour the silicon so as to cover this armature.


It looks like the following.


There seems to be a case where coloring is given to a mold.


To the colored mold, the armature that you held in your hand ......


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Magda · Visak, who pours molten state silicon into the cup.


If liquid silicon is poured into the mold, the surrounding of the armature is covered with soft silicon and a movable doll is made.


Doll coloring will be done.




For example, in the coloring of Tracy's face ......


A total of 22,000 freckles have been drawn by hand.


Since I have to have freckle at the same part, I am arranging several faces and working on it.


And you also need to embed the hair one by one in the head.


Alex Williams, who oversees the hair part, said hair must be embedded in the same way if there is a beard or the like in the "face" where the change is made in one scene.


Dogs' hair is also being embedded by hand as well. I heard that the dog's hair actually uses hair cut from animals.


Half of the face is silicon ... ....


The other side is wrapped in fur.


The animal's fur part exists as a department different from the human hair part, and it seems that the work of sticking the fur instead of embedding it one by one was done.


There are also parts that are responsible for costumes only.


Costume production begins with collection of dough. Since it is necessary for costumes to remain stationary at the time of shooting, it seems that it becomes important to make "costume with good control".


As multiple scenes are taken at the same time, the distribution of which dolls are taken for shooting becomes important as well.


What is stuck firmly to the front of the wall ......


It looks like a table showing which dolls are exposed to which studio. Just by looking at this table you can see how many dolls are being managed.