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‘An Almost Christmas Story’ Director David Lowery on His First Animated Short and Choosing CG Over Live-Action
'An Almost Christmas Story' director David Lowery on why he chose CG over live-action for his first animated short.
He also loved the idea of what Cuaron had done with “The Shepherd” and “Le Pupille,” creating a new series of films for Disney+ which hopefully, along with “An Almost Christmas Story ” would become perennial classics. “It was originally much longer and much busier and much more complicated, and because it was so essential to the movie, it also needed to be as simple as possibly could be, and we kept reducing and distilling it down to the core essence of what that connection between those characters was.” Have everyone build a two-scale version of New York City, particularly Rockefeller Center and the areas around it entirely out of cardboard.” He adds, “They built everything to work as it really would; the taxis and automobiles.
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