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larger later. Although we had already figured it out and it just was the matter of how delicate do you handle it and how do you set up your camera when you shoot those things? I enjoyed having the energy of the performances coming through without having to break up — like a lot of effects films — where you shoot the Hatter as one element, then you shoot Alice as another element holding on to a green soccer ball or something, and I hate that stuff. What we gain from that is little subtleties you might not remember to do if you are breaking up into pieces, so if her hands are on his face you see little nuances of his skin getting moved around and his cheeks moving where she is holding him, even though her hands are twice the size of normal hands." POST: Did you use motion capture? RALSTON: "We tried. We were set up to do it and we were get- ting stuff, but as the film went on, because of the nature of the charac- ters, we wanted something more expressive and slightly more stylized — some things are far more stylized than others, but something with a The character Stayne is actor Crispin Glover's head on a CG body, flowing black cape and all. Giving the Red Queen a big head: Tools used by Imageworks on the film included Maya, Mudbox, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Flame, Nuke and propri- etary software. continued on page 40