Burton's next on resurrected dog

Filmmaker Tim Burton knows what it's like to be a boy with a dead dog. The filmmaker came to the Comic-Con convention in US last week to show footage of Frankenweenie, his expanded take on his 1984 short film of the same name.

Filmmaker Tim Burton knows what it's like to be a boy with a dead dog. The filmmaker came to the Comic-Con convention in US last week to show footage of Frankenweenie, his expanded take on his 1984 short film of the same name.

The film tells the story of a boy who resurrects his beloved dog after the pet dies in an accident. Unlike the live-action original, the feature-length version is done in black and white, and uses stop-motion animation. The puppets were meticulously shot one frame at a time.

Burton, who started out as an animator, says it was a new experience for him to work with live actors back in 1984, but that the stop-motion version is a more pure take on his story. Frankenweenie hits theatres on October 5.

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