{"id":567406,"date":"2026-05-05T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:58:10","slug":"wildwood-featurette-teases-laikas-stop-motion-artistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567406\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildwood Featurette Teases Laika\u2019s Stop-Motion Artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing with a Laika<\/a> film is, you\u2019re always too caught up in the story to really think about the sheer mind-boggling nature of its existence. Because, the Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio pours years and years into making their features, using techniques both cutting-edge, but also entirely old-school: a Laika claymation movie really does involve its characters being nudged millimetre by millimetre to create that fluid movement. The studio\u2019s latest, Wildwood<\/a>, looks no different \u2013 and it\u2019s a massive fantasy epic, conjuring a dark fantastical world with a breathtaking level of craft. Check out a new featurette here:<\/p>\n

Even after all these years, it\u2019s good to be reminded of the gargantuan effort it takes to make a lavish stop-motion movie \u2013 and as this featurette makes clear on Wildwood, \u201cevery feather is crafted by hand, every wing is carefully animated, every frame reveals a world taking flight\u201d. The film comes from director \u2013 and Laika boss (no, not The Lonely Island kind) \u2013 Travis Knight, his follow-up to Kubo And The Two Strings, adapted from the Oregon-set novel written by Colin Meloy (of Oregon-based indie rock legends The Decemberists) and illustrated by Meloy\u2019s wife Carson Ellis. As its title suggests, a major part of Wildwood is capturing the raw, rugged landscapes of the Northwestern state.<\/p>\n

Knight has been extraordinarily busy \u2013 Wildwood isn\u2019t even his only film arriving this year, with his live-action Masters Of The Universe<\/a> adaptation hitting cinemas in June. Wildwood will follow later this year on October 23. Start your Laika rewatch now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thing with a Laika film is, you\u2019re always too caught up in the story to really think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}