From 'Wildwood' to 'Coraline': How Stop Motion Costumes are Handmade at LAIKA

Go behind the scenes at LAIKA Studios for an up-close look at the extraordinary costumes of ‘Wildwood,’ the studio’s most intricately designed stop-motion film yet. Nearly 20 years after ‘Coraline,’ LAIKA’s artists and designers reveal how every tiny stitch, button and layer of fabric is handcrafted and engineered to help bring its puppets to life, combining costume design, fabrication and animation at an astonishing scale. See how Prue’s embroidered jacket mimics knitwear in miniature, why Alexandra’s increasingly dark costumes conceal everything from chainmail to hidden armatures, and how buttons barely bigger than a grain of rice are individually made and hand-sewn into place. Along the way, discover why they call stop motion “a sequence of problems to solve,” how everything LAIKA has learned across six films made ‘Wildwood’ possible, and why one artist believes it may be “the most heavily designed stop motion feature that will ever be made in the history of humanity.” 'Wildwood' is now playing in theaters. 0:00 Behind the Seams: ‘Wildwood’ 0:18 The Story 1:04 Making Costumes for Stop Motion 1:33 The McKeel Family 1:54 Prue 3:41 Baby Mac 5:06 The Impassible Wilderness 5:16 Alexandra 6:22 The Armor 7:43 Buttons 8:17 Engineering 10:15 Curtis 11:27 Brendan 12:11 Tattoos 13:22 Seamus 14:09 The Puppet Hospital Subscribe to InStyle on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=instyledotcom *CONNECT* Website: http://www.instyle.com/ Facebook: https://ww