Movie Review : Krampus 2015
3/21/2016 10:00:00 pm
Krampus from the Director Michael Dougherty's new horror and fantasy film is based upon the horned figure from Germany folklore who, during the Christmas holidays, punishes children who have misbehaved. Legendary films and the VFX magicians at Weta Workshop have certainly done a very good job in creating a fearsome anti-Santa in this movie.
Weta used set extensions and digital snow and atmosphere to enhance the exterior sequences to give the movie a feeling of size and scope. Krampus director, Michael Dougherty, giving Weta's creative team a huge amount of freedom when it came to creating scenes.
Krampus' minions were generally all practical costumes and puppets, with one exception – the Gingerbread Men. The attack of the gingerbread men was something that couldn't realistically be done practically so they did the gingerbread men digitally. Their simple design and lack of fingers and toes lent itself to kind of bouncy animation style.
The digital team also tackled Omi's flashback, and for me it was a stop motion with a very style digital animation sequence.
A bonus on stop-motion in this animated flashback sequence when revealing the family's historical link with the monstrous Krampus, through Max's grandmother, Omi was very amazing. She recounts the story of how she came to meet Krampus when she was a kids.
They created the entire sequence in CG. The director also wanted the feeling that this piece of animation had been crafted using stop motion animator. The team were given a great deal of freedom in the creation of the flashback. I watch this flashback as just like another animated short film in this movie.
They also reinvent the Krampus from the film when it came to the animated silhouette version. The short's focus is Omi, the only fully formed stop motion character. The Animator kept all the secondary characters as shadows and cut-outs. All the sub characters were created as 'cardboard cut-outs’ which they rigged and animated. The result is very rich piece of work and give a very beautiful meaningful cut out and stop motion combination.
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