itsbish:

laikaworld:

“We cut a trough into the set, and we put a piece of rigging that goes under the set and into the mother’s stomach. It’s a little creepy, I know. But it allows us to slide her along the surface of the sand, and every time she reaches out and claws into the sand, that’s all a plasticine or clay surface that we have to carve into and move a frame at a time. We’d have little bits of sand that were flying up in the air, so we take these little bits of foam or clay, we put them on bug pins or wires or little bits of fishing line, and we have those elevated and move them a frame at a time to make it look like it’s bursting out of the ground.” - Travis Knight 

literally impecable. Im losing my mind

The attention to detail that studio laika gives and the amount of effort that they have is astounding. It’s such a fantastic film and feels so fluid and whole. The animation in this movie is so fantastic and the whole film is well worth seeing in theatres.