directed by Michael J Rix/
It’s Christmas Eve and little Catherine awakes to find her favorite Teddy preparing to go home for the holidays.
“I had private investors, but it wasn’t a major production, it was just kind of done on the sideline. That was what kind of drew me to animation to begin with, but I like the hands-on feel of animation, that kind of – well the animation I do is stop-frame animation, as opposed to CG, which is the Pixar/Dreamworks animation that is so huge at the moment. And stop-frame for me was also – I don’t consider myself an animator, I’m a filmmaker, so I like to put things in front of the camera, and light them, and I have that opportunity with stop-frame. I made characters, and I could actually place them in front of a lens, and shoot them in a certain way, and put them in sets as opposed to just fiddling around inside a computer to generate characters and scenarios, etc.”
– Michael J Rix, director of Teddy
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