Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a ...

The company’s costume department breaks down the detailed design behind clothes engineered for frame-by-frame filming.

From bespoke puppet faces to hand-applied feathers, the craftspeople behind the stop-motion feature explain how they build ...

This adaptation of Colin Meloy’s fantasy novel is painstakingly rendered by human hands; it is equal parts magic and tragedy.

The hands that made “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings” unpack their most epic project to date.

During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell had had enough. It was winter, and she was cold. She ...

Travis Knight, the head of Laika and director of the new stop-motion film Wildwood, shares insights on the role of generative AI in the film industry.

The Portland studio is releasing a new stop motion film, ‘Wildwood’ that they began conceiving almost 15 years ago. ‘I don’t ...

Discover why Laika's Wildwood is a hauntingly beautiful animated tale that delves into dark themes of loss, grief, and hope.

We are learning, with the advent of AI, that some people think the point of art is the end product. They think AI removes the need for an "artist" (in the context of AI, I use the term loosely) to ...

There you have it: 10 literary Halloween costumes inspired by book characters. Oftentimes, we overthink our costumes, but if ...

Wildwood is a celebration of stop-motion animation and one of the best animated movies of the year - dazzling, emotional, and ...