How Filmmakers Animated the Emotional Scene in Awards Contender ‘The Snail and the Whale’
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFilmmakers Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon are no strangers to the world of adapting the vividly illustrated children’s books of Julia Donaldson for animation. They’ve adapted “Room on the Broom,” “The Gruffalo” and “Stick Man,” and this time they’re vying for Oscar short animated film and Annie Awards consideration with another beloved story, “The Snail and the Whale.”Produced in a stop-motion/CG hybrid style, the story is a simple one — a snail yearns to see the world, so it catches a ride on the back of a whale.In one sequence, the snail is looking up at the night sky filled with stars.