What follows is an unpredictable world filled with fairytale mystique-for better or for worse.Īttached to direct the project is Travis Knight. (Ring any bells? The secret door in Coraline, perhaps?) But that doesn’t stop Prue McKeel, who has no choice but to venture into the unknown when her little brother is kidnapped and taken into the depths of this mysterious world. You’re not supposed to know about it, and you’re definitely not supposed to go there. Wildwood exists just outside of Portland, and it’s a no-go area. The film takes place in the mysterious, otherworldly realm called-you guessed it-Wildwood. Wildwood is based on the children’s fantasy book of the same name by The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and artist Carson Ellis. Now, the studio is back with Portland-set stop-motion film Wildwood. LAIKA’s original distribution partners, Focus Features and Universal Pictures International, remain the studio’s collaborators to this day.If there’s any studio that consistently hits the jackpot, it’s animation hub Laika: Their five animated films- Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link-have all been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature. We always want to challenge ourselves.”Īll three films released so far have featured LAIKA Studios’ unique and innovative 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid technique. There’s an inherent restlessness at LAIKA. We discovered new processes for integrating practical and digital visual effects, to make our worlds more authentic. We created new techniques for building and animating our puppets, to make our characters more lifelike and to connect more immediately and intimately with audiences.
We invented new systems and technologies for liberating the camera, to make our films more cinematic. By combining stop-motion animation with cutting-edge creative approaches, we’ve embraced the fusion of art and craft and technology, honoring tradition while looking toward the future. We are committed to telling stories that are thematically challenging, aesthetically beautiful, emotionally resonant, and a wee bit subversive. “LAIKA is devoted to telling new and original stories in new and original ways… We aspire to make films that are bold, distinctive, and enduring. “When LAIKA began we had a simple goal: to make movies that matter,” says Travis Knight, LAIKA’s President and CEO, who also is lead animator and a producer on its films.
Take a look for yourself at some of the Kubo sets and puppets with the below LAIKA studios featurette. In a new behind-the-scenes featurette, LAIKA studios today looks back at their impressive trio of past releases ( Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls) and ahead at their latest feature film, Kubo and the Two Strings. LAIKA studios, the award-winning animation facility nestled in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, celebrates its first decade this month.
LAIKA Studios celebrates its tenth anniversary with a new behind the scenes featurette
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