For more than a decade, additive technology has been a creative mainstay at LAIKA, evolving with LAIKA’s increasingly ambitious artistic vision and rapid advancements in 3D printing and software.

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In its latest animated comedy adventure Missing Link, fresh winner of the Golden Globe award for Best Animated Feature Film, the stop-motion studio extensively leveraged 3D printing technology, as we reported back in April. The studio began the process of 3D printing of faces to painstakingly fashion expressions for the stop-motion characters in 2009’s Coraline . That project was completed with about 20,000 unique faces.

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For 2016’s Kubo and the Two Strings , the number of expressions jumped to 64,000. Missing Link featured a whopping 106,000. “The decision to push the technology is very much driven by creative, said Brian McLean, Director of Rapid Prototype at LAIKA, in a Stratasys case study. After the success of Coraline , […]

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