Toronto ? There are two sides to the animated Helena Bonham Carter.

There’s the dead blue chick with the rotting veil and the talking maggot in her eye socket. Then there’s the upper-crust society dame with the freaky orange hair and the passion for giant vegetables.

Bonham Carter provides the lead female voice for an unusual confluence of two animated films made through stop-motion techniques, which involves moving inanimate objects while photographing them one frame at a time.

First comes “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” featuring the voice of Johnny Depp and opening nationwide Friday. Debuting Oct. 7 is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” a big-screen adventure featuring clay-animated British cheese fanatic Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit.

“The two are coming out so closely together, we just hope they’re not going to be pitted against each other,” said Bonham Carter, 39, whose films include “A Room With a View,” “Howards End” and “Fight Club.” “They’re both such totally different movies, and neither of them deserves that.”

“Corpse Bride” features Bonham Carter providing vocals for the title character, a woman slain the night before her wedding and buried in her bridal gown, who has been waiting for a husband to come and claim her. The blue-skinned, decomposing bride rises from her grave and says “I do” when a nervous bridegroom (Depp) practicing his vows inadvertently slips her a ring, then whisks him away to the underworld as her eternal match.

“Wallace & Gromit,” from Aardman Animations, has the ever-upbeat Brit and his long-suffering canine pal running a humane pest-control service to keep rabbits from ravaging produce just before the town’s annual giant veggie contest.

Peter Sallis, who provided the lead voice for the three acclaimed “Wallace & Gromit” short films made for British television, is back as mouthpiece for Wallace, who encounters a monster bunny and a nasty rival (Ralph Fiennes) for the affections of Bonham Carter’s Lady Tottingham, the patron of the vegetable competition.

For Lady Tottingham, Bonham Carter developed a perky, gushing voice modeled somewhat after a friend of her mother.

For the Corpse Bride, Burton wanted Bonham Carter to bring her deep voice up.

“He said, ‘I want her light, and I want her to have a purity and an innocence,”‘ Bonham Carter said. “I analyzed the character and thought, because she was frozen in time, stuck, actually perpetually young because she was killed on the eve of her wedding, that meant a voice with a great deal of spontaneity, always so excited.”

Stop-motion animated films are rare. The last notable one was 2000’s “Chicken Run,” co-directed by Park and produced by Aardman.

While enthusiasts of the animation technique say two stop-motion movies in short order may help keep it alive and encourage more films, Burton said having one right after the other opens the door for pointless comparisons.

“I don’t think it’s so great they’re coming out a week between each other or whatever. It’s a disaster,” Burton said. “The point is, those guys do great work. That’s why it’s unfortunate they’re coming out at the same time. Filmmakers won’t compare them, but everybody else will.”