A selection of stop-motion animation I did at Laika from 2011 to 2019. We'll have to wait patiently before I can post my work in Laika's next film, Wildwood.
All footage is owned by LAIKA, used with permission. All elements beyond the stop-motion animation itself are by other artists.
ParaNorman has a new trailer out and this is a must see, best one yet! Laika really
wants everyone to know how much work and precision goes into one puppet and
there are a lot more than just one Norman puppet, I can tell you! Not to mention
the ridiculously large number of characters that appear throughout the length
of the film each have several duplicates as well. This is just one!
At first I thought Travis
Knight may have been the one who animated Norman coming to life, but I stand corrected as it is actually done by the very talented animator Malcolm Lamont (who seems flattered to be mistaken for Travis). Nice one Malcolm! You can't tell from this clip featured above (I chose this one for the lack of ad pop-ups), but that surface gauge says Malcolm on it. You can see if you switch to hi-res in this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnBT0J5jCs about 1:05 minutes into the video. Its great, you can even see the coffee
draining from the mug. I know a couple lucky people that happened get that mug
for Christmas, now those who got a different present will be jealous, lol.
That is a test stage that Norman is coming to life on by the way. Every animator
started off in a test stage to practice animating before ever doing anything
that appeared in the film. It's important to keep the quality high throughout
the film. notice that this is a fresh, clean test stage though, mine was
riddles everywhere with tie-down holes. If my memory serves correct, I started
in test stage 9, no way of telling which one this was shot in.
Thanks to Laika for putting this together, its so gratifying when the public
understands the sweat and tears that go into making the illusion of life, since this is not normally considered by the average movie-goer. Laika is
certainly doing everything they can to promote ParaNorman, even books and
Merchandise are coming out; which can only serve to increase the potential fan base!
Check out the Yahoo Movies page, and everyone go see it in August 2012 cause it's going to be awesome! Plus, I'm animating some of the scenes, so you know it's good ;)
