Wildwood's director says AI is 'antithetical' to Laika's stop-motion filmmaking process.
Wildwood is Laika's most ambitious film, taking five years to make.
It involved 230 puppets and over 1,000 artists.
The studio values traditional animation over AI tools.
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Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - including 36 of the main character Prue alone - which were brought to life by a team of 49 animators. All told, more than 1,000 artists worked on the film in some form. The painstaking process that goes into making a Laika film offers a distinct counterpoint to the instant progress promised by generative AI tools.
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