What you’ll learn about LAIKA, though, is it’s a company relentless in its quest for improvement, not just of itself, but the art it practices too. Knitting those images together achieves the sense of movement, and movies are made. Replacement animation of characters’ faces has traditionally been done through the hand sculpture of hundreds of different facial expressions, which are then photographed and replaced with another expression. Founded only eight years earlier, through Coraline, Paranorman, and in 2014, The Boxtrolls, LAIKA had established itself as one of the most impressive filmmakers in its genre.Ĭentral to that immediate success was an inventive new approach to character design through replacement animation. It’s 2013 and a production company whose latest stop animation movie is about to earn it a third consecutive Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Feature category arrives at a crossroads. I'm beyond honored to be part of their plans for the future.A tray featuring an array of faces printed for LAIKA's movie, The Boxtrolls. As a long-time fan of LAIKA's movies for their vision, heart, craft, intelligence and ambition, I couldn't have hoped for the novel or the universe it inhabits to have found a better or more exciting home. Seventeen is a thriller with soul, a sinuous adrenaline-fueled actioner with a sincere heart beating underneath its rippling pectorals."Īdded Brownlow, who is perhaps best known as the writer of the 2003 Gwyneth Paltrow feature Sylvia, "I am absolutely thrilled to be developing Seventeen for the screen with LAIKA. ![]() He's crafted a brilliant universe with its own powerful identity. John has such a wonderfully unique voice. " Seventeen is a stiff cocktail of wicked wit, exhilarating action, and raw emotion. So what of Laika's first live-action movie? It appears to be a straightforward action thriller, none of that hybrid stuff, which Knight describes as a "thriller with soul." Knight said: Laika was one of the many studios hit hard by COVID-19, and optimistically, this shift to live-action may be a way for the company to fund its next stop-motion venture. It's unclear whether Laika will continue to make stop-motion movies or whether this is a hard pivot toward live-action for the studio, whose Oregon studio was on the cutting edge of merging the traditional art of stop-motion with new technology like 3D printing and computer animation. With Seventeen, LAIKA is taking that philosophy in an exciting new direction." Across mediums and genres, our studio has fused art, craft, and technology in service of bold, distinctive, and enduring stories. Laika CEO Travis Knight, who himself made the crossover into live-action by directing the ( surprisingly good) Transformers prequel Bumblebee, announced Laika's expansion into live-action following the studio's recent celebration of its 15th birthday (it was founded in July 2005), saying, "For the past 15 years, LAIKA has been committed to making movies that matter. Laika has secured the rights to Seventeen following an "intense" bidding war, per the studio, which plans to make Seventeen its sixth feature. The first Laika live-action movie is an action thriller called Seventeen, based on author and screenwriter John Brownlow's upcoming first novel. The Oregon-based animation studio behind movies like Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings is making its first-ever live-action movie, Collider reports.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |