Wildwood
Laika is the stop-motion animation studio that made Coraline & Kubo and the Two Strings. Their newest film, Wildwood, looks pretty incredible; have a look at the trailer.
Creative Boom recently highlighted some of the process behind the film, which is heavily dependent on physical sets and puppets.
The man tasked with putting the show together was art director Matthew Maldonado, having spent five years designing and building Wildwood’s sets. So I asked him the million dollar question: how much of Wildwood is physical and how much is digital?
Matthew’s response is simple. “Every single thing was made by hand, truly,” he stresses. “And every single thing that we built was either shot in camera or referenced by our effects department. We’ve got some really wide, expansive locations and there’s some digital aspect to all of that. But if it wasn’t on camera, on stage, it’s a scanned asset or a reference asset, specifically made by the artisans in the art department.”
“The show” referenced in the quote above is Wildwood: The Exhibition, due to open soon at the Design Museum in London.
(via justin lind)
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I enjoyed this video that looks at how this studio uses blue screens and other techniques to make this amazing stop motion, and wonders if it perhaps loses some of its charm.
And the books are great! Written by Colin Meloy from The Decemberists
Can't wait for this! This making-of piece at Animation Magazine is really interesting too.
We were lucky to be able to do a friends and family tour of the set last year and it's amazing to see how much detail goes into everything.
The last time we were in Los Angeles I spent a half-day at the Academy Museum, and they had a bunch of Laika figures (reaching for a better word, but can't find it) and props on what seemed like a permanent display. Highly recommend if you're a fan.
"Puppets" was the word I was apparently searching for.
Another good piece on Laika Studios and Wildwood.
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