It’ll be five when it comes out.”Īs was further explained to us by producer Arianne Sutner, shooting for the film takes approximately two years. But I think we actually started developing it about five years ago. “But that’s a bit of a cheat, because it’s an idea that I had a long time ago and occasionally, I got back into it. “rom when I first started writing it, that was more than 15 years ago,” he said. However, as director and writer Chris Butler explained, the duration of time that it takes to create a film like Missing Link from start to finish can be a lot longer than one would think. Such objects of beauty I imagined were created fairly early on in the process before gradually being transformed into the final product that audiences get to see. As we were led into a small theater to look at the sneak peek footage of the film, my eyes were drawn to sketches of artwork from previous films. Having fairly minimal knowledge about what goes into stop-motion animation, it was difficult not to be immediately sucked into the childlike wonder that took hold of me as we entered the warehouse space that LAIKA has set up shop at. Make sure you take a look at the gallery below and gaze upon all of the hard work the LAIKA team has put into these incredible sets.

This writer doesn’t think her photos do the sets justice because there is so much incredible detail work within each set, but I was able to capture some of the magic to bring back to you. We got the opportunity to visit the awe-inspiring, fantasmical sets used for Missing Link as well as photograph them.

Vital Thrills got a close-up look at what has become a passion project of sorts for Butler. Now LAIKA is planning on taking audiences all over the globe with their most ambitious project to date in Missing Link.Ĭhris Butler ( ParaNorman) returns to write and direct this film, making this his second feature film with the studio. Since the release of Coraline, the studio has introduced us to the transcendent and terrifying world of the supernatural in ParaNorman, taken us through the winding Victorian-era streets of Cheesebridge, Norvenia occupied by trolls and humans alike in The Boxtrolls, and brought feudal era Japan and the accompanying mythos to new life for Western audiences in Kubo and the Two Strings. Audiences got to experience firsthand the kind of worlds the studio could bring them to. It has been ten years since LAIKA released their first feature stop-motion animated film, Coraline.

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