A short new featurette has been released looking at the making of Tim Burton’s upcoming stop-motion feature, Frankenweenie.

The video discusses how personal the project is to Burton, the actors involved—including Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Martin Landau—and who they’re playing, and looks at some of the puppets and sets used for filming.

You can check out the new making of featurette for Frankenweenie by clicking on over to the other side now.

As you saw from our reaction post made earlier today, we are pretty excited for Frankenweenie.

It’s a Tim Burton film that blends classic horror motifs (mostly from Frankenstein) with stop-motion animation and 3D effects. We’ve already seen two trailers for Frankenweenie, but none of them paid homage to the classic horror films the way this new retro trailer does.

Check it out below.

This summer, audiences didn’t seem to show much affection towards Tim Burton‘s Dark Shadows, and rightfully so, since the film was critically panned. Now that that film is behind him, Burton is now turning his attention to Frankenweenie.

The teaser trailer was released back in March, and now a new trailer for the film has arrived online, giving a more in depth look at the story. You can see the new trailer below.

Some new character images have been released for the upcoming Tim Burton stop-motion flick, Frankenweenie, which will hit theaters on October 5, 2012.

The movie is an adaptation of Burton’s own short live-action movie of the same name, and reunites the director with many talents he’s worked with in the past, including actors Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, and Winona Ryder, as well as writer John August.

Continue on below to read a synopsis and check out the new character images from Frankenweenie.

The first teaser trailer for Disney and director Tim Burton‘s stop-motion animated feature, Frankenweenie, has found its way online by way of Yahoo! Movies.

The movie is an extension of Burton’s 1984 short film of the same name, telling the story of a boy named Victor Frankenstein who attempts to bring his dog back to life.

You can see the teaser trailer for Frankenweenie by clicking on over to the other side now!