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Barcelona based Grangel Studio created the characters for Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride”. The Mayor of Barcelona negotiates the shooting of a Bollywood movie in the city.

I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the avant-premiere of Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” at the Art Futura festival in Barcelona. The film pushes puppet stop motion to its limits with features like fluid animation, cloth animation and lip-sync. In fact, animation is so well done that you can’t help wondering if it wasn’t done with 3D computer graphics.

The feature film was preceeded by a short introduction of the people who designed the characters, the typography and the graphic image of the movie. What?! They addressed the audience in Catalan, they didn’t wear any adidas-retro-cool gear and the typography designer was well over his sixties!

They are Barcelona based Grangel Studio and they’re shattering all stereotypes with their innovative work in the animation field with they participation in such films as Shrek, Sinbad, Shark Tale and Madagascar.

Also this week Barcelona’s Mayor Joan Clos was in an official trip to India trying to close a deal for the shooting of a Bollywood blockbuster in Barcelona. This would promote the city in the asian film market. Not a bad if you think that India produces more films than Hollywood for a market of 3.000 million.

I can’t wait to see hundreds of indian actors dancing with their colorful saris and their moustaches in front of the Sagrada Familia. I’m sure it could be featured on Art Futura too!