Tim Burton's latest film, Corpse Bride, is a ghoulish love story that mixes stunning visuals, with music, song and liberal doses of macabre wit. Co-directed by Burton and Mike Johnson, Tim Burton’sCorpse Bride's characters are brought to life through stop-motion animation – a painstaking process in which puppets are moved by a matter of millimetres for each individual frame. What makes Tim Burton’sCorpse Bride different from other stop-motion movies is its use of digital SLR cameras to capture each frame: 32 Canon EOS 1D Mark IIs to be exact. 

The film is based on a Russian folk tale about a murdered bride who falls in love with a living man. The big screen interpretation is set in dark and dreary Victorian England. Johnny Depp lends his voice to the character of Victor Van Dort. Helena Bonham Carter voices the Corpse Bride of the title.

Making a feature-length film using stop-motion animation is not for the faint-hearted: The Corpse Bridge shoot lasted 52 weeks and involved just under half a million individual images being captured. The makers of Tim Burton’sCorpse Bride decided to use digital photos, instead of computer-generated graphics, feeling it was more in keeping with the tone of the film. Pete Kozachik, cinematographer and Visual Effects Supervisor for Tim Burton’sCorpse Bride, explains, " The tactile look of toys come to life, with all their imperfections and brush strokes visible, seems to me to be the best match for the story. It lets the audience participate in completing the illusion in their own imaginations. There is a magic to that, when the story is right."