15 Films That Took Major Strides In Animation
5. Coraline
Coraline broke the mold of only CG animated films being successful in the 2000's by producing this witty and spooky adventure following a girl moving into a Victorian mansion.
The adapted Neil Gaiman story was expanded to fit a film's run time and in spite of that, this movie was still a huge risk for producer Laika Studios who was yet on the map.
The film started with a dull colour palette to elicit the real world and, when Coraline traveled to The Other World, was suddenly vivified by the contrasting light, shadow, and energising colours.
Coraline herself had a total of 208 thousand individual facial expressions. This helped her feel alive and human despite being made of plastic and metal limbs. Some of the other ways it portrayed life-like things such as the appearance of fog, by using dry ice was inventive, and foreclosed the doubts that stop-motion and Laika Studios couldn't produce animations to the standard of Dreamworks or Pixar.