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Tristan Oliver on Wes Anderson's stylistic break from stop-motion convention on Fantastic Mr Fox
Cinematographer Tristan Oliver discusses how director Wes Anderson's established visual style -- higher camera angles, a limited colour palette, and soft diffused light -- ran against practices stop motion had historically avoided, since flat overhead light and diffusion can make a puppet read as an inert object rather than a character. Oliver describes his role as serving the director's vision rather than pulling it back toward convention: "he's got you in there to get what is in his head on the screen, because he trusts you to be able to do that."
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