'Like nothing anyone’s ever seen before': Inside the painstaking stop-motion of LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’
Laika’s sixth feature uses 233 handcrafted puppets and more than 400 shots in its climactic battle, underscoring the studio’s longest stop-motion production.
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Wildwood blends stop-motion fantasy, folklore, coming-of-age adventure, and a richly imagined natural world, following a young protagonist into an enchanted forest where wonder, danger, grief, and larger forces of conflict intertwine. With Laika's meticulous visual craftsmanship, an unusually expansive fantasy setting, and a tone that ventures into darker territory than many animated films, it draws on the traditions of fairy tales, mythological…
'Like nothing anyone’s ever seen before': Inside the painstaking stop-motion of LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Three seconds of animation. That’s about all the average animator at LAIKA can shoot in a week. Now multiply that across an entire feature film, with hundreds of handmade characters, intricate sets and a story that unfolds in a magical forest. That’s the painstaking work behind Wildwood, the latest stop-motion adventure [...]
In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, the studio responsible for Coraline and the Secret World chose to follow another path: art made by human hands. LAIKA took about seven years to produce Wildwood, known in Brazil as The Wild Forest, an animation built with dolls, real scenarios and thousands of [...]
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