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The founder of Nike owns a movie studio where a full week of work produces one second of film. It loses money on almost every release, and he's been quietly paying for it for over 20 years. Phil Knight bought a struggling Portland animation shop in 2002, and his son Travis started there as an animator. The studio became LAIKA, the one behind Coraline, and Travis worked his way up to CEO. He's directing the new movie, Wildwood, himself. The economics are brutal. Coraline came out in 2009 and…
TheCinesthetic@TheCinesthetic6d ago
The stop-motion animation work behind LAIKA’s WILDWOOD (2026) is absolutely insane. 136 handcrafted sets, over 200 practical puppets and 49 animators working across 231 weeks, with some shots producing just 1–4 seconds of animation per week. @LAIKAStudios #Wildwood, #LAIKA_partner