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Coraline Jones is an 11-year-old girl who is feisty, curious, and adventurous for her age. Her parents and she have recently moved from Michigan to Oregon. Coraline tries to find excitement in her new environment, despite missing her friends and finding her parents distracted by their work.

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She befriends - or, as she sees it, is annoyed by a local boy her age, Wybie Lovat, and pays visits to her older neighbors, eccentric British actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, as well as the arguably even more eccentric Russian Mr. Bobinsky.

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Coraline Jones russian neighbor who lives in the upstairs flat of the Pink Palace Apartments. He owns a jumping mice circus; Coraline assumes he is crazy and her mother believes that he's a drunk.

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Henry Selick was aware that Coraline had a lot of interesting things happen to her, but there was very little she could do to process them in such a way that the audience could fully understand what she was thinking and feeling. As a result, he added a character who did not appear in the book. Wybie, the landlady's grandson, was created so that Caroline would have someone to talk to other than herself.

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Coraline is skeptical that her new home can offer anything interesting to her at all. However; she discovers a hidden door in the house. An alternate version of her life and existence after walking through the door and then through an eerie passageway. This parallel reality appears to be similar to her real life - only much better.

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A larger room dedicated to puppet fabrication is located next to costume design. As with costumes, the main characters have multiple puppets, and there are 28 Coraline puppets. Each puppet also has multiple pairs of backup hands, which are especially prone to wear and tear and must be replaced frequently.

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Henry Selick took on the task of creating the movie Coraline based off of the book, by best-selling author Neil Gaiman. Director Henry Selick had already made a name for himself with the stop-motion animated movies The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. However, Coraline was his biggest, most ambitious project to date. It was, in short, a massive undertaking -- one that took four years to complete.

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The adults, including the oldly ‘perfect’ Other Mother, appear to be much friendlier to her. Coraline is the center of attention there, even from the enigmatic Cat. She begins to suspect that the Other World is where she belongs. But when fantasy wears off, her visit becomes dangerous, and Other Mother devises a plan to keep her there, Coraline must summon all of her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to return home - and save her family.

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The doll serves as the eyes for the Other Mother, as she spy's into Coralines life to see what is making her unhappy, in order to create a more perfect second life for her.

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Deborah Cook's costume department was overflowing with tiny clothes made by hand to exacting standards. Each costume is made in multiples due to wear and tear. Cook created 30 identical pairs of the tiny pajamas worn by Coraline in the film. Each copy had to be exactly the same, right down to how the pattern broke at the seams.

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“-absolutely everything you see on the screen, somebody has made.”

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Hand-Making Coraline: Behind LAIKA’s First Feature | LAIKA Studios

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Even with 29 full-time animators, only 90-100 seconds of footage were produced each week. To put things in perspective, the final product lasts 100 minutes.

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Coraline debuted at $16 million in February 2009 and eventually grossed $75 million in North America, plus an additional $49 million overseas.