| DUCK USES STOP-MOTION TO ANIMATE SPONGEBOB |  |   | | | LOS ANGELES - Stop-motion animation pros at Duck Studio’s Screen Novelties (www.duckstudios.com) created a new opening sequence for the SpongeBob SquarePants’ 10th anniversary special on Nickelodeon. | | (12/11/2009) | | |  The piece runs roughly :45 and takes the show’s star on a rollicking adventure beneath the ocean and into outer space, all through landscapes handcrafted by Screen Novelties.
SpongeBob, the pirate and fish featured in the open were created using a mixture of stop-motion, cardboard animation and puppetry.
The open was directed and produced by Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh
. Ralph Kaechele
served as director of photography. Animators included Sarah DeGaudemar, Musa Brooker and Kelly Mazurowski
.
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