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Send help because I cannot stop watching Laika Studios' TikTok fight challenge video which features tons of incredible stop-motion animation. The studio that brought us Missing Link, Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings was just the latest team to join the viral TikTok challenge — and it might be the most fun fight challenge video yet. Laika debuted their incredible TikTok challenge video on Twitter on Friday, captioning the video with, "No one ever said animating was safe." The video begins with one of the studio's most iconic characters, Coraline, getting the special honor of being the …
The Oscar-nominated animated film Missing Link from acclaimed stop-motion studio Laika has been added to Collider’s FYC Screening Series at ArcLight Hollywood. On Wednesday, January 29th, there will be a post-screening Q&A with writer/director Chris Butler. Missing Link is about a lonely Sasquatch who teams up with an English explorer to travel to the Himalayas to meet his distant cousins, who are Yetis. The film already took home the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, and is a top contender for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award. Laika is one of the …
https://youtu.be/IRSyUgxBowE Listen / download here: We recently had the pleasure of revealing an incredible 360° video for LAIKA's Missing Link that took fans around the world onto--and into--the set of the stop-motion marvel's Wild West saloon. That video, which gives viewers unprecedented access to an actual set from the movie, including everything behind and in front of the cameras, was narrated by the film's production designer Nelson Lowry. We had a chance to chat with Lowry, a longtime stop-motion animation artist and LAIKA veteran, about his career and his latest awards-…
Missing Link, the incredible achievement in stop-motion animation from award-winning studio LAIKA, is poised to bring home even more awards thanks to its Golden Globe and Annie Awards (and hopefully Oscars) nominations. And those awards are very much deserved. It's hard to overstate just how much hard work, talent, and creativity goes into each and every frame of a LAIKA film. But luckily we have an exclusive video that offers a glimpse of just that, a peek behind the curtain to show off the effort that goes into the sets, characters, costumes, and animation of the studio'…
LAIKA movies like Coraline and Paranorman have great characters in them that would fit in well in Harry Potter's world. Here are their Hogwarts Houses
If you're a fan of the art of animation, and you live in Los Angeles, California, we know exactly what you're doing Sunday, October 27, 2019. You're seeing a free exhibition and marathon screening of every LAIKA movie back-to-back, from 2009's Coraline to 2019's Missing Link. It's going down at The Landmark, and it's the perfect way to absorb the unique studio's particular blend of stop-motion artistry, humor, darkness, and joy. In an age of CGI dominating the animated film landscape, LAIKA cuts through the noise, giving each of …
Film industry veteran David Burke has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Oscar-winning animation studio LAIKA, creators of Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link. Burke joins LAIKA from Universal Pictures where he was General Manager for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 2006. The announcement was made today by Travis Knight, President & CEO. “Dave Burke is an extraordinarily talented marketing professional with over two decades of global movie business experience,” says Knight. “As we continue to build our studio and the LAIKA brand, Dave’s counsel and leadership will …
From ParaNorman to Coraline, Laika Animation Studios is known for making out-of-the-box family films that appeal to all demographics.
From LAIKA Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment comes Missing Link, now on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD. The latest stop-motion marvel from the studio that brought you Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings delivers a classic globetrotting adventure tale that features Victorian-era sensibilities clashing against New World discoveries, all wrapped up in a story about discovering yourself and finding a place where you truly belong. If you aren't familiar with the story from its theatrical run, Missing Link stars Hugh Jackman as Sir Lionel Frost, a brave and dashing adventurer who …
Most movies are marketed as being "years in the making", but for a LAIKA Studios movie, that tagline is literally true. Not only do the stop-motion masterpieces take years to create, from the concept stage to final polished production, they're also some of the most hands-on creations you'll ever seen on the big screen. Missing Link is the latest herculean effort and labor of love from the studio, and you can get a glimpse of how it all came together thanks to new behind-the-scenes featurettes and clips from the movie itself. Starring Hugh Jackman, …
For the last decade, LAIKA has delivered incredible works of art and artistry in the stop-motion animated films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Four films with five Oscar nominations among them, four films that featured a mixture of genre, tone, settings, and original or adapted storylines. The studio's award-winning animation techniques have also evolved from one film to the next so that no two pictures are alike. The one core similarity that runs through every LAIKA film, however, is an ambitious storytelling spirit anchored by charismatic and compelling characters. Missing Link continues …
Two of Missing Link's main stars talked with CinemaBlend about how Laika is distinguishing itself from other animation studios.
From LAIKA, the animation studio behind the Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings, Coraline, and ParaNorman, comes Missing Link, a stunning, epic, raucous stop-motion comedy out in theaters April 12th. Insight Editions and LAIKA have collaborated for The Art of Missing Link, a must-have companion to the film featuring featuring concept art from the film’s creation—including sketches, storyboards, character designs, and much more. I'm torn. On one hand, I want you to run out and see LAIKA's new stop-motion animated film Missing Link as soon as humanly possible. On the other hand, …
If you're a fan of LAIKA Studios' stop-motion animated spectacles, you probably have a good idea of what you're in for when their latest film Missing Link heads into theaters this April: Stunning animation, well-developed characters voiced by top-tier acting talent, and a surefire Oscar nomination come awards season. But more casual moviegoers might miss out on just how much work and artistry goes into making these relatively small but highly complex and sophisticated puppets move, one frame at a time, in order to bring the next great adventure to the big screen. That's …
Since coming onto the scene in 2005, LAIKA has been making some of the most memorable, technologically advanced stop-motion feature films in history. That's a tall order considering that stop-motion has been a tried-and-true animation method for well over 100 years. Long before computer-generated animation software made the impossible possible, stop-motion animators were painstakingly bringing dinosaurs, monsters of mythology, and sci-fi creations to life through the slow, laborious, frame-by-frame tweaks to lifeless models. Today, LAIKA exists on the cutting-edge of computer-generated animation technology which the studio marries to …
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