LAIKA Studios has an exquisite run for an animation studio, each of their films providing deliciously beautiful stop-motion animation with bittersweet, emotional, and darkly funny narratives to boot. Now, for the first time ever, all of their wondrous characters have been put under one roof to celebrate Thanksgiving together - and we've got the exclusive video.
What characters are in this MCU-esque crossover? You've got Mr. Link and Sir Lionel from Missing Link, Eggs from The Boxtrolls, and the titular characters from Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings, and ParaNorman. And now, please enjoy how this motley crew celebrates Thanksgiving - sorry, Friendsgiving.
I don't know about you, but that really warms my heart. And makes me feel better - I'm not saying I've ever dropped a Thanksgiving turkey like Mr. Link, but I'm not not saying that, either.
How on earth did they do this? Take a look at this behind-the-scenes video to see just how much work goes into a stop-motion piece of animation, even at just 30 seconds.
For more BTS goodies - Thanksgiving sides, if you will - we spoke with Brad Schiff, head of animation at LAIKA and Animation Supervisor on the studio’s last four Oscar-nominated films (Missing Link 2019, Kubo and the Two Strings 2016, The Boxtrolls 2014 and ParaNorman 2012), who led the team on this idea of bringing "the 'hero' characters from our five previous films together for an epic 'Friendsgiving' dinner. And like most family events, a bit of chaos is bound to happen." And this chaos, like the rest of their feature films, took forever to make:
"Our films take years to create and work on our latest project is ongoing. But as a studio we are more and more committed to creating shorter form content that our fans can enjoy online and on our social channels. But anything we create has to meet the incredibly high bar that LAIKA has established. We have extremely high standards at the studio and we applied them to the Friendgiving piece as stringently as we did on our five Oscar nominated films. We can’t work any other way, frankly. This piece, only 29 seconds in length, still took 10 full weeks of production from concept to end of production today and involved every production department. We know that our movies have a lasting impact on audiences and we wanted to create something shorter…but no less impactful. We still want a viewer to be profoundly affected in some way by everything we put out into the world. We want it to enhance the animation medium, to engage our fans, to add to their holiday celebration, and to stay with them long after viewing."
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15 сен 2024
