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Wildwood is one of the best movies of the year. It’s an epic stop-motion animated saga about a young girl trying to rescue her brother, and it’s filled with raging battles, fantastical animals and a voice cast featuring Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, and Tom Waits. Wildwoodwas made by Laika, the studio behind Coraline…

Laika’s Wildwoodhas officially opened in theaters. It is perhaps the biggest, boldest, most ambitious stop-motion film the medium has ever seen, and it was entirely made by hand with no cheating from computer animation or aye-eye or anything of the sort. Wildwood is the kind of movie you complain that studios don’t make anymore, and…

Anination studio Laika takes flight with a grownup stop-motion tale, while the Grammy-, Oscar- and everything-winner returns with a Pharell-produced 11th album

“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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