“And that would not only give the opportunity to the animator to change his or her mind on a given frame on which mouth or brow might be snapped in at that moment, but it also allowed us to achieve a greater range of expression for the puppet performances with fewer facial components.”Įxamples of facial lines uncorrected, rotoscoped, and erased. “One thing that was decided early on was that in order to give them a greater range of expression, they split the face down the center – right between the eyes,” Emerson said. In order to adjust characters’ facial expressions, Laika swaps out magnetic faceplates on the puppets – and in order to make these facial hotswaps possible in an already-lengthy workflow, Laika renders the faces on computers, then uses 3D printers to deliver them on “cookie sheets” to the puppeteers. Laika is no stranger to using advanced technology to accelerate these processes. This punishing animation procedure means that Laika is able to film maybe a second’s-worth of time per day – on a good day – and takes several years to complete a given film (roughly 18 months each for filming and post-production).
So we do this again and again and again and again until we have a 90-minute, 95-minute, two-hour movie.” “And then after we’ve done 24 of those, we have a one-second performance. “For every frame across one second of film, we pose a puppet, we take an exposure, we move the puppet or something else within that environment in the smallest of increments, we take another exposure,” explained Steve Emerson, the visual effects supervisor at Laika. Even for these animators, however, higher-tech solutions are sometimes necessary – and now, Laika is highlighting how an Intel-provided machine learning solution is helping the studio streamline its workflow.
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The 15-year-old movie studio – which has so far released Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link – works in stop motion animation, requiring the use of physical puppetry and real-world lighting, painstakingly adjusted frame-by-frame. The Oscar-nominated animators at Laika are practitioners of a grueling art.
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