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“Wildwood,” Laika’s stop-motion animated fantasy based on the book series by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, opens in theaters this weekend. It’s a staggering technical achievement, with principal photography taking more than six years, utilizing dozens of puppets, including one character The General, a majestic golden eagle, that required 3,794 individually placed feathers. But sitting…

As much as Pixar gets most of the credit for revolutionizing modern animation in film over the last few decades, it’d be a mistake to look past the stop-motion brilliance pioneered by Laika. The studio behind beloved titles like “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” and “Kubo and the Two Strings” has built up quite the reputation in a…

In a world flooded with AI slop, there’s no better cure-all than watching an artist walk you through their human, hand-made process.

‘The Forest is Calling’ installation now open outside the Hard Rock Hotel at SDCC; will soon head to additional North American cities ahead of the film’s October 23 theatrical release.

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