Tag: LAIKA
LAIKA Keeps Staff’s Pay Rolling: ‘The World Will Need Storytellers’
Portland, OR-based indie studio LAIKA -- the birthplace of critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated stop-motion features Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and...
Global Animation & VFX Community Responds to COVID-19 Crisis
Over the past few weeks, the animation and VFX industries have banded together to face the challenges we are all confronting in these difficult...
92nd Oscars: ‘Toy Story 4,’ ‘Hair Love’ Win Animation Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the 92nd Oscars ceremony Sunday night in Hollywood, with the animation winners striking a balance...
Decision Time: Revisit Animag’s Oscar Contender Coverage
The Academy is closing final voting for the 92nd Oscars at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4. If you’re still weighing the animation and...
Which Award Is the Best Animation Oscar Predictor?
As the annual film gold rush rolls on toward the Academy Awards, we thought it would be interesting to see which of the major...
Five Animated Films Up for Producers Guild Award
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the Motion Pictures and Television nominees for the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards. Winners in these...
Golden Globes: ‘Missing Link’ Wins Best Animated Feature
The HFPA presented the 77th Golden Globe award ceremony on Sunday night, kicking the Hollywood awards season into high gear. Ricky Gervais returned to...
Animation Magazine’s Best of 2019
Congratulations to all our Animag’s Best of 2019 Award Winners. These year-end honors were determined by our readers who picked their favorites during the...
News Bytes: BAFTA Animation Shortlist, Sean Sexton Talks DreamWorks, Adobe Snags Oculus Medium & More
WATCH: The Groundbreaking Puppets of ‘Missing Link’
To celebrate the film’s Golden Globe nomination, LAIKA has unveiled a new behind-the-scenes video highlighting their most advanced...
Golden Globes Animation Nominees React (Updating)
The filmmakers behind this year’s Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film nominees chime in on being included this select list chosen by the...
HFPA Reveals Conventional List of Golden Globe Animation Noms
The Hollywood Foreign Press came up with a more conventional list of nominees in the Best Animated Feature category this morning. Surprisingly enough, the...
LAIKA Sets Day-Long Retrospective at Landmark LA Oct. 27
LAIKA, the award-winning animation studio whose five films -- Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), The Boxtrolls (2014), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Missing...
‘Inside LAIKA and the Art of Missing Link’ Pop-Up Arrives in LA
It’s commonly believed that award season voters have a short memory, and they need to be reminded of the great movies that were released...
French Films Triumph at Stop Motion Montreal
The 11th edition of Festival Stop Motion Montreal concluded with the enthusiastic unveiling of the 2019 laureates at the closing ceremony held September 22...
LAIKA Taps Universal Vet David Burke as CMO
Film industry veteran David Burke has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Oscar-winning animation studio LAIKA, creators of Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo...
Phil Tippett Named Special Guest of Stop Motion Montreal 2019
The Festival Stop Motion Montreal returns for an 11th edition from September 16 to 22, under the theme of “stop motion in the digital...
SIGGRAPH 2019: A CG Progress Report
***This article originally ran in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
When SIGGRAPH attendees congregate in the Los Angeles Convention Center from...
Annecy: Disney Premiering 3 Experimental Shorts, BTS of ‘Frozen 2’
In what has become an annual tradition at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Walt Disney Animation Studios returns with a Bonlieu Theater presentation showcasing...
How Fraunhofer’s 3D Printing Tech Gave Life to Mr. Link
For its new stop-motion feature Missing Link, in theaters Friday, LAIKA utilized Fraunhofer IGD’s Cuttlefish 3D printer driver to create the charming character models....
Laika Uncovers Fresh ‘Missing Link’ Clip, Featurette
With its latest stop-motion masterpiece set to arrive in theaters April 12 (through Annapurna Pictures), LAIKA is offering up a closer look at what...
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