EXCLUSIVE: Laika Chief Travis Knight Reveals Future Plans For Studio
Laika has some very different projects planned for the future.
Laika has some very different projects planned for the future.
We go behind-the-scenes to learn how Laika animated one of the biggest stop motion puppets ever constructed.
Will Laika score big with “Kubo and the Two Strings”?
A new trailer is out for Laika’s next film.
Laika’s fourth film, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” is an honest-to-goodness action-adventure film set in a mythic Japan.
Laika’s next film, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” will mark the directorial debut of animator Travis Knight.
Five animated features have been nominated for a Golden Globe in the best animated feature category.
A 40-minute video roundtable with six feature film directors and producers contending for an Oscar this year.
What’s the coolest thing about having your animation studio run by one of the world’s richest men? You get to make as many animated movies as you damn please.
A new commercial studio, House Special, launched in Portland, Oregon last week. The company was started by Lourri Hammack, Kirk Kelly and Al Cubillas, who ran Laika’s former commercial division Laika/house.
At a presentation for LAIKA’s third stop motion feature “The Boxtrolls,” LAIKA’s CEO Travis Knight told San Diego Comic-Con audiences that he hopes to make a hand-drawn animated film at some point in the future.
The Venice Film Festival, which is the world’s oldest film festival, announced the line-up today for their 71st edition. The festival is known for not giving much consideration to animated cinema, but they always throw in a few animated films.
Laika does amazing work as an animation studio, no doubt about it, but the studio’s history is somewhat less admirable. The company was built on top of Will Vinton’s eponymous Portland studio in a shrewd corporate takeover by multi-billionaire Nike co-founder Phil Knight. After Knight took control of the company in 2002, he placed a failed rapper named Chilly Tee with slight experience in animation, who also happened to be his son Travis Knight, in charge of the entire company.
In this LA Times story about the resurgence of stop motion animated features, Travis Knight, the producer of Laika’s ParaNorman and one …