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Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still, nothing could quite prepare him for his first stop-motion project: working […]

For the Masters of the Universe film-maker, bringing his latest stop-motion animation movie to the big screen has been a lengthy labour of love

Laika’s latest animated stop-motion story explores a fictional, mysterious, unurbanized stretch of land outside the city of Portland, Oregon. The Impassable Wilderness, as it is called, has many lessons to teach heroine Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) when she drags her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay) into the woods shrouded in ivy to save her

LAIKA Studios spent over six years crafting "Wildwood" by hand— 233 puppets, 1,000-plus artists, and zero AI. As the film earns Oscar buzz, animators say handmade art is having a resurgence. NBC News' Chloe Melas reports.

Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon

The founder of stop-motion studio Laika speaks with Culture Editor-at-large Michael Idato about his childhood watching Ray Harryhausen films and Wildwood's 16-year journey to the screen.

As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI “is antithetical to everything that we are at this studio,” also emphasizing that he hopes people “see the danger” in the technology’s potential as much as the “value.” “But all of […]

“Wildwood” director Travis Knight is weighing in on Hollywood’s use of AI. “I’m not embracing it at all,” Knight told me Wednesday night at AFI Fest’s opening night U.S. premiere of “Wildwood.” “I see technology as a tool, and we use technology at Laika. A pencil is technology, a paintbrush is technology, a 3D printer […]

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - including 36 of the main character Prue alone - which were brought to life by a […]

The filmmaker and Nike scion poured untold millions into his critically acclaimed "grand experiment." But he knows the real test is yet to come.