In a room adorned with sketches, fabric swatches, vintage photographs and other reference material, costume designer Deborah Cook detailed the almost 18-month process of coming up with the outfits that each character wears in the film, combining historical and even geographic accuracy with the filmmakers’ idiosyncratic impulses. And we’ve been doing that successfully.” The costumes needed to be “indestructible” Every shot is an old-fashioned visual effect here, but they’re able to work closely with us and kind of expand our world. But now we’ve been working so closely with our visual effects team and the CG side. “Before, you were confined by the three walls or even four walls. But there’s still elements of irreverence in it, because I can’t help myself.” Sutner suggested that the expansion of locales for the story and the evolution of their techniques to incorporate more computer-generated “enhancements” of stop-motion techniques both enabled and forced that tonal shift. “It’s more playful for sure,” agreed Butler. “But on the face of it, it’s lighter and brighter.” “Is it subversive? Yeah, I think there’s a strong element that runs through this movie,” Sutner said. That said, Sutner and Butler acknowledged this film is a bit sunnier than its predecessors.
Laika’s films have always skewed slightly darker than many of their animated competitors, exploring sadness, fear, and loss in a way that’s accessible to children but relatable to adults.
We travel halfway around the globe in this movie, and it’s a quite an impressive feat.” So we wanted to give you a sense of how that looks in terms of the scale. So it’s a little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Sherlock Holmes, a little bit Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and a little bit Around The World in 80 Days. “I wanted to do kind of like an Indiana Jones, but for stop motion. “We always talk about it as being a kaleidoscopic travelogue,” Butler said of the film, which he also wrote. “We say that every time, but every time it’s true.” Missing Link is “brighter” than other Laika films “This is definitely the most ambitious thing we’ve done,” Butler told reporters. Producer Arianne Sutner and director Chris Butler started the tour by offering some background detail about their inspirations for the film, and its place in Laika’s growing library of projects. In anticipation of the release of Missing Link on April 12, Nerdist visited Laika Studios, nestled just outside of Portland in Hillsboro, Oregon, for a look at these incredibly complex and time-consuming processes that produce such delightful characters and stories. Missing Link, Laika’s latest, is a wild, brightly-colored adventure that marks their most ambitious effort yet, featuring dozens of locations, a lead character whose plump, fur-covered design seems like an animator’s nightmare, and generally more detail, design, and color than they’ve ever attempted before. Through films like Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, Oregon’s Laika Studios has led the charge to preserve stop-motion artistry, pushing forward decades-old techniques with technological advancements that simultaneously make the nuts-and-bolts process easier and challenge filmmakers to use it in innovative, dynamic new ways.
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