Fantastic Mr. Fox made via Email??

News comes regarding the ongoing feud between writer/director Wes Anderson and  the film’s director of animation, Mark Gustafson on The Fantastic Mr. Fox.   Gustafson began making claims that Anderson while making Fox, did not want to spend the time at Three Mills Studios in London, as he was working on another project at the same time.  Even the film’s director of photography, Tristan Oliver has said:

“I’ve never worked on a picture where the director has been anywhere other than the studio floor!”.

Oliver’s ill feelings towards the director seem to not be quite secretive at all, as going as far as saying: ”I think he’s a little O.C.D. Contact with people disturbs him. This way, he can spend an entire day locked inside an empty room with a computer. He’s a bit like the Wizard of Oz. Behind the curtain.”

This may have been news to the crew, as it is quite common for the director to be absent from the production during these stop motion animated films.  Anderson would have the animators send digital files over of what has been done, and what the crew has been working  on, which Anderson then would reply with detailed instructions on what needed to be done.  Anderson himself would fly back and forth between sets even to his brother’s Connecticut farm, where he would have the actors dub their voice work in the actual barn or out in the forest, to attempt to get as much authenticity as possible while on the project.

Source: Vulture