WATCH: A Behind-the-Scenes Timelapse Captures the Extraordinary Physical Labor for the New Stop Motion Film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ [video]
Oh my gosh!! <3
Seriously guys, if this doesn’t amaze you to go watch the movie, you’re blind!
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS FACTS.
Kubo’s puppet had a total of 23,187 rapid prototype faces created. In combination, Kubo had over 48 million possible facial expressions!
The Sisters’ costuming was inspired by Tome Gozen, a female samaurai warrier. The cape included 861 laser-etched feathers, each uniquely sized and shaped.
The kimono worn by Kubo’s mother was inspired by the women courtiers of the Heian era. Over 2,000 laser-cut pieces of weighted lining are in the kimono, giving it proper the proper weight and folds.
The full-scale Giant Skeleton is the largest stop-motion puppet ever built. 70 unique swords were made for the skull and over 1,000 bones were created for the torso’s armor.
The Garden of Eyes sequence was created using a single 11 feet tall puppet shot from multiple angles. The animators created a remote interface for the puppet that included a track ball made from a computer mouse and bowling ball.
The Moon Beast is LAIKA’s first fully 3D-printed puppet. It was built at a one-fifth scale and composited into shots with the full-scale Kubo. If built to scale, The Moon Beast would have been over 17 feet long!
Three versions of the origami sailboat were created, along with six versions of the sail. The surface of the boats were covered in nearly 250,000 laser-cut leaves which took almost 100 hours to apply. The boat sequence took 19 months to shoot!
The amount of work that went into this film is mind-blowing. There will never be enough praise for the people involved.
“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.
