The Life Aquatic - Animated sea creatures..

Love these sea creatures that were thought up by Wes Anderson and animated in stop motion by Henry Selick. They are the sort of aquatic fish that dreams are made of.. I thought they were done in CG but was surprised to find out that they are stop motion.

"For creature design in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, director Wes Anderson had the interesting idea of taking something you know, then adding one strong new element to it: golden barracuda; sugar crabs; jaguar shark. He believed the resulting creature would be something the audience would want to believe existed (I know I wish they existed). In the case of the Crayon Pony fish, I went for a slight variation from reality in anatomical design, but–as you see in my sketch–used actual crayon colors that Wes picked for the body. In bringing the creature to life, we gave it a carefully and beautifully animated horse-like mane with some equine head motions while having it look like it was floating in water."

Henry Selick, Director of Animation

Sources :
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/mn/lifeaquatic.html
http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/hydronicus-inverticus-interview-henry-selick