THESE GUYS LOVE STOPMOTION…

4 Computer animation may be the dominant medium of the time, but the Laika guys say stopmotion is in their blood. “I think that the artist is inextricable from the art,” says Knight. “It would be like asking a great painter to become a great photographer, it’s two different things. We are craftspeople, we build these things by hand, and we make these films by hand, and that ultimately informs our perspective on how they ultimately come out.”