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'Game of Thrones' star Isaac Hempstead Wright is now taking on a voicing job, dubbing the part of an orphaned boy in an animated film.
Wang Lei has more.
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People recognize Isaac Hempstead Wright from his role as Bran Stark in critically-acclaimed TV show, "Game of Thrones."
Now his fans will have a chance to enjoy his voice in the animated fantasy "The Boxtrolls."
The 15-year-old actor voices Eggs, an orphaned boy raised by trash collectors living under a town, who tries to save the ungainly, sweet-natured Boxtrolls from an evil exterminator.
Hempstead Wright says voice acting is not as easy as it looks.
(sb1, Hempstead Wright, male English)
"It was intense yeah, especially because we were in this very very small recording studio and he has this special chair, a reclining chair, so he's sitting there like this and taking up most of the room in the recording studio and I'm cowering in the corner."
The stop-motion adventure is based on children's book "Here Be Monsters!" by Alan Snow. It contains numerous figurines which took months to construct.
The young actor says the animation process required them to be flexible and versatile.
(sb2, Hempstead Wright, male English)
"The amount of work that's gone into just creating this one puppet is incredible. I mean underneath it there's an entire armature - a careful piece of engineering with all sorts of innovative designs. So each joint can move flexibly and not break. All the way to the hair - I mean each, it's got... So it's not like real hair, it's all got sort of little wires in it so that they can set it whichever place they need and it will stay there."
Hempstead Wright explains the different expressions of Eggs in the animation.
(sb3, Hempstead Wright, male English)
"So what they do is they have these hundreds - so when they want to animate a line in the digital department, they'll analyze all the various little sounds that would make it up and design the phonetic shape of the mouth for each sound and they print them out straight away as 3D objects on a rapid prototyping 3D printer and they click them all on, take it off, click the next one on and so on and so forth".
Producer and animator Travis Knight says you can't buy a proper Boxtroll from the shops as they are more expensive than a hybrid car.
(sb4, Travis Knight,male English)
"The actual Boxtrolls that we make are probably something you couldn't get your niece for Christmas. They cost about as much as a Prius. They take 3 to 4 months to make. They're this incredible marvel of mechanical engineering and artistry. You can get one at McDonalds in a Happy Meal."
"The Boxtrolls" is out in U.K. cinemas on September 12.
For Studio+, I'm Wang Lei.
