Focus and Universal Features have released a new trailer for The Boxtrolls, the next stop-motion animated adventure from Laika Entertainment.
March 11th, 2014
Focus and Universal Features have released a new trailer for The Boxtrolls, the next stop-motion animated adventure from Laika Entertainment. The film is adapted from the book “Here Be Monsters” By Alan Snow. Laika produced and created the critically acclaimed Coraline and Paranorman. The Boxtrolls is set to arrive in U.S. theaters on September 26th, 2014.
The film features the voice talents of Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.
About the Story
The new 3D stop motion and CG hybrid animated feature are a comedic story that unfolds in Cheese Bridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who creep out of the sewers at night and steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their kids and their cheeses. At the least, that is the legend, residents have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs, since infancy as one of their dumpster diving and mechanical junk collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheese bridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change and cheese.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.