See Wes Anderson S Directorial Videos For Fantastic Mr Fox

See Wes Anderson’s Directorial Videos For Fantastic Mr. Fox

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2009 8:04 pm EST

HitFix has this clip, which compares some of the video direction supplied by Anderson against bits of the finished film. You’ll see that, in the cases provided at the very least, the movements of Anderson and characters are often identical. It’s fairly neat to watch how exactly Anderson’s movements were mimicked by his animators. I wonder how much of the film was actually ‘directed’ this way. Was there a lot of this sort of thing, or does this short video clip represent most of it? I would expect it’s the former.

I like the idea that, when you get right down to it, Wes Anderson is effectively the one playing many characters in the film. OK, there are the vocal performances, which were created (as is usually the case) separately from the animation. But the physicality on display is right from the director, and that makes the film relatively unique.