Behind the scenes article about Robot Chicken.
A big lesson from season one was that action figures, like their human counterparts, get old and creaky. Their joints have limited range of motion and don't hold up to the rigors of stop-mo. "I cried twice trying to animate them," Meyer says. ShadowMachine ditched the store-bought figures and now creates replicas, molding foam latex bodies over flexible wire armatures, allowing Meyer to manipulate the dolls with ease.
They are working on a movie.
Now, using the techniques it has honed for TV, ShadowMachine is revving up production on its first animated feature, Naughty or Nice (think Shrek meets '60s-era stop-mo Christmas specials). If the studio's track record is any indication, it can shoot the film at a fraction of the budget for previous stop-motion movies. But for the Robot Chicken-ShadowMachine rebel alliance, the bottom line is only part of the appeal. "We've become a family — as cheesy as that sounds," Senreich says. "We've been through highs and lows together and find ourselves wanting to do as many future projects together as we can."
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