LAIKA Animation Studios’ latest stop-motion film “Wildwood” is widely considered a love letter to the city of Portland and turns its real-life streets and woods into a magical mysterious world through a combination of cutting-edge technology and old-school stop-motion animation.
Known for classic animated films like “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” the studio, helmed by CEO Travis Knight, spent 16 years developing “Wildwood,” an adaptation of the popular young adult fantasy novel written by The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and illustrated by artist Carson Ellis…