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The parallel universe full of attention and dessert and elaborate production numbers staged solely for Coraline's benefit seems ideal, but as she digs deeper she finds that it's more a trap than a wonderland.

One automatically associates eye-popping effects with digital technology, but the vast majority of Coraline's wonders were created by hand. It would have been easier to create effects with a computer, but had they compromised, Selick says, "There wouldn't have been anything valuable in those scenes."

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