Tim Burton had wanted to bring the Martians to life in the film via stop-motion animation as an homage to the films of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen. He first considered Henry Selick (who had directed the film Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) for him) as the right man for the job, but Selick was busy with his own stop-motion film James e la pesca gigante (1996) (also produced by Burton). They initially worked with a different team of animators, but when the studio refused to finance the projected costs, they finally decided on computer-generated images (CGI) created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), which was much cheaper. The ILM animators made the CGI purposely look a bit cheap and fake as per Burton's request, although he decided against animating the Martians without motion blur, which would have made them look more "stop-motiony".
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