{"id":442908,"date":"2022-05-06T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:08:12","slug":"how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Studio Laika Seeds Their Stories with Invisible Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a381c61a270c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a381c61a270c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Studio_Laika_Seeds_Their_Stories_with_Invisible_Labor%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Studio Laika Seeds Their Stories with Invisible Labor&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/#Watch_%E2%80%9CStudio_Laika_and_the_Ghosts_of_Invisible_Labor%E2%80%9D\" >Watch \u201cStudio Laika and the Ghosts of Invisible Labor\u201d:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-studio-laika-seeds-their-stories-with-invisible-labor\/#More_videos_like_this\" >More videos like this<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Studio_Laika_Seeds_Their_Stories_with_Invisible_Labor%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Studio Laika Seeds Their Stories with Invisible Labor&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Ah yes, the unseen magical realm to just-out-of-frame animators pipeline.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Laika_Kubo_and_the_2_strings.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Studio Laika: Kubo And The Strings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Laika_Kubo_and_the_2_strings.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Laika_Kubo_and_the_2_strings-768x321.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Laika&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Meg Shields\u00a0\u00b7 Published on May 6th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;Welcome to The Queue \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay that takes a look at how the stop motion studio Laika seeds <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of invisible labor into their filmography.&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Founded in 2005, Oregon-based Laika studios is currently one of the biggest names out there when it comes to stop-motion animation. Unlike hand-drawn or digitally-rendered animation, stop-motion exists in the real world, with sets and characters tediously puppeteered by the artists charged with breathing life into inanimate models. Because the labor required to realize feature-length stop-motion animation is so intense, these days, Laika has very few competitors. If you saw and enjoyed a stop-motion film in the last 15 or so years, there\u2019s a good chance Laika was pulling the strings \u2026 or manipulating the metal skeletons. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>As the video essay below notes, almost all of Laika\u2019s output follows young protagonists whose coming of age quests take them through mystical hidden lands, from the uncanny, doppelg\u00e4nger-filled Other Wold of 2009\u2019s <strong><em>Coraline <\/em><\/strong>to the secretive subterranean realm of 2014\u2019s <strong><em>The Boxtrolls\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>to the spiritual plane of 2016\u2019s <strong><em>Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em><\/strong>. As the essay remarks, there is arguably a link between these unseen, magical spaces and the invisible labor of the animators themselves. While trolls and ghosts may lie beyond the barrier of Laika\u2019s fictional worlds, the animators\u2019 touch haunts these spaces too; their tireless bodies and hands lingering just outside the threshold of the frame.<\/p>\n<p>While these self-reflexible narrative threads are somewhat complicated by the studio\u2019s increasing reliance on CGI elements, it\u2019s a fascinating thesis to consider nonetheless: that Laika\u2019s emphasis on the labor behind their work isn\u2019t <em>just\u00a0<\/em>a marketing strategy or the backbone of a public identity \u2026 but a core thematic concern.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_%E2%80%9CStudio_Laika_and_the_Ghosts_of_Invisible_Labor%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Watch \u201cStudio Laika and the Ghosts of Invisible Labor\u201d:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Studio LAIKA and the Ghosts of Invisible Labor\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/692448165?h=b5085b5a1f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-a3ef65e1-092e-4d5f-b3a2-6899549a8c52\" data-inc=\"2\">This video essay on the self-reflexive industrial allegory of Laika studios is written and directed by <strong>Mihaela Mihailova<\/strong>. It is produced by Alla Gadassik and edited by Gil Goletski, with Jacqueline Turner providing the narration. The end of the video credits the Vancouver-based Emily Carr University of Art and Design for support. Mihailova is Assistant Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She is the editor of the essay collection <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/ca\/coraline-9781501347863\/\"><em>Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA\u2019s Stop-Motion Witchcraft\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Bloomsbury, 2021)<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_videos_like_this\"><\/span>More videos like this<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul id=\"block-07b9dd5c-53ce-4517-a7ce-70d71e3d4293\">\n<li>Did you know that Laika studios have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/LAIKAStudios\">a YouTube account<\/a> that posts a heck of a lot of behind the scenes footage? Well, they do! Here\u2019s a video about the creation of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4AVJvafgNo\">the hand-crafted world of 2012\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>ParaNorman<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JncuykDwT8A\">a video from BBC Click showcasing a variety of goodies from <strong><em>Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, <\/em>including that massive blood-red skeleton puppet, which, and I cannot stress this enough, I would put in my front lawn every Halloween, given the chance.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re still a little fuzzy on how modern stop-motion animation works, exactly, here\u2019s a video essay from Insider with a look at Laika studio\u2019s more recent effort\u00a0<strong><em>Missing Link <\/em><\/strong>that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p5SygzMSLhM\">goes back to the basics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, here\u2019s AT&amp;T Developer Program, of all YouTube accounts, with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1NGeGcV9dXw\">a TED Talk-like behind the curtain peek at the art and science of Laika studio<\/a>. If the other videos I\u2019ve recommended so far felt a bit terse, this 45-minute bad boy should satisfy you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Animation, Laika, The Queue\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/meg.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Meg Shields is the humble farm boy of your dreams and a senior contributor at Film School Rejects. She currently runs three columns at FSR: The Queue, How&#8217;d They Do That?, and Horrorscope. She is also a curator for One Perfect Shot and a freelance writer for hire. Meg can be found screaming about John Boorman&#8217;s &#8216;Excalibur&#8217; on Twitter here: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWorstNun\">@TheWorstNun<\/a>. (She\/Her).        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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