Portland animation studio Laika signed on to release two more movies with Focus Features, which distributed “Coraline.”
Portland animation studio Laika signed on to release two more movies with Focus Features, which distributed “Coraline.”
First up is “ParaNorman,” a comedy-thriller about a boy dealing with zombies, to be released in August 2012.
“It felt like a summer film. It’s certainly odd and curious, but it’s also broadly appealing,” said Travis Knight, Laika’s chief executive and the son of studio owner Phil Knight.
Laika makes its features in a laborious, old-fashioned style known as stop-motion. It’s a slow process that requires painstaking manipulation of puppets, shot frame by frame to simulate motion.
Increasingly, Knight said, Laika intends to incorporate more computer-generated effects into its films. But he said the studio intends to retain the “handcrafted” feel of stop-motion.
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