I’d love to know exactly how long Studio LAIKA spent making Wildwood. When the figure I’m hearing is sixteen years, my spidey-sense tells me it might have taken even longer. With that much detail packed into the stop-motion animation, I’m fairly sure the animators leaned on a little digital additions, and honestly, I’m fine with that. Come awards season, I hope the crew takes home more than a few trophies for technical achievement.
Even in the trailer, the background details are so overwhelming, I feel it’s easy to lose track of and forget about the story. But since it’s based on Colin Meloy‘s novel of the same name, I can always pick up the book and see where the two diverge.
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