Skeletons, muscles, and tiny lungs
A forest in a warehouse
Millions of faces, one frame at a time
The epic scale of Wildwood
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007skaty Wildwood Puppet Faces
Print a new smile for every single frame (every frame) / Magnet clicks in and we do it again (do it again!)
007skaty Turning precise knobs on the puppet's back-mounted jetpack allows animators to tilt and rotate characters in tiny increments.
007skaty Match replacement puppet faces to discover how stop-motion animators create realistic facial expressions.
No secrets here: Laika refuses to patent its custom 3D-printing technologies, actively encouraging rival animation studios to copy their methods to help stop-motion survive.
An animation technique in which physical parts of a puppet are swapped out between frames to depict movement or change of expression. For LAIKA's film Wildwood, artists utilized over 142,000 3D-printed faceplates to execute this process.
What is the name of the mechanical rig on a puppet's back used for micro-adjustments?
Which other studio used Laika's shared technology for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio?