Dozens of amazing stop-motion puppets can be viewed inside LAIKA LIVE San Diego at 2018 Comic-Con!
Wow!
If you thought last year’s Laika Experience at Comic-Con was great, you’ll be absolutely stunned by LAIKA LIVE San Diego in 2018!
Not only are there lots of detailed puppets, models and scale movie sets, but during the tour visitors can meet and talk to an actual working armaturist and an animator! Anyone interested in how Laika produces their films can ask any sort of question, and the friendly guys explain everything–from how puppets, their armatures and costumes are created and manipulated, to how scenes are conceived and filmed.
Visitors to LAIKA LIVE San Diego also get a preview of the upcoming funny and heartwarming movie Missing Link.
If you can, visit this Comic-Con offsite before Comic-Con actually begins and the lines get really, really long.
Here are some photos. Read the captions for more info. I’m no expert, so I hope I’ve described things correctly.
There’s a lot more to see than what I cover here. Many detailed displays that visitors can view during the tour explain the complicated process of making a Laika movie!
Before beginning the tour, visitors can pose with various Laika characters, like Other Mother, for a photo.While we wait to begin the tour, we watch a video explaining various aspects of Laika’s animation and how their fantastic movies are produced.Visitors are encouraged to vote for this LEGO model of Coraline’s house by photographing a QR code. Given enough votes, LEGO will produce the kit!A board contains Laika fan art and letters.Examples of one letter and some fan art.Visitors to LAIKA LIVE San Diego get character fans as free swag.The tour has begun. Here we see a large model of Coraline’s Other World House Exterior, or Pink Palace. The 1/16 scale miniature was used to film several exterior scenes.A closer look, with models of Coraline characters on the porch.A friendly LAIKA armaturist describes how puppets are made, manipulated and repaired at his workstation, dubbed the Puppet Hospital. He answered every sort of question!Two of the puppets, I believe from ParaNorman.A look at the Puppet Hospital and some of the tools used to make, modify and repair Laika’s many puppets.Once a puppet’s physical posture is slightly altered, the turn of a key tightens up the armature for another camera shot.Next we see how this Laika animator captures images of Kubo on a small set of his village using a camera on a running rig.One camera shot is analyzed.Software allows many frames to be merged and edited into a completed film.Some puppets have many faces that can be attached, each with a slightly different expression.The tour continues to a large set that is being used to film Laika’s upcoming funny movie Missing Link. The detail of the Pacific Northwest forest is extraordinary.The friendly LAIKA tour guide poses for a fun photo!Near the end of the tour, there is a life-size replica of Coraline’s Other World Living Room.A fantastic set and puppets used in the filming of The Boxtrolls.More cool sights during an amazing tour of LAIKA LIVE San Diego at 2018 Comic-Con!
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7 thoughts on “Photos of tour inside LAIKA LIVE San Diego!”
Great photos. Wished i lived in the states so i can visit comic con every year 😦
before u enter the event, i think there’s a store booth next to it where you can pick up an event code for the game app, Quidd. to redeem a coraline sticker on ios app. lol.
Hey there! I just found your page! And I was wondering if you came across a Laika event code, or any kind of code period? I play an app called Quidd and am a passionate Laika and Coraline supporter, and on this app they are releasing special collector’s edition Coraline stickers!! However, in order to unlock one of these stickers you need the special Laika event code. As I live in New Orleans, this is unfortunately not an option for me. Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated, and thank you for your time!
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Great photos. Wished i lived in the states so i can visit comic con every year 😦
did you happen to grab any laika live event code?
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I’m not sure what you mean by event code.
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before u enter the event, i think there’s a store booth next to it where you can pick up an event code for the game app, Quidd. to redeem a coraline sticker on ios app. lol.
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Uh, oh! I didn’t realize that! I didn’t look for it!
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Hey there! I just found your page! And I was wondering if you came across a Laika event code, or any kind of code period? I play an app called Quidd and am a passionate Laika and Coraline supporter, and on this app they are releasing special collector’s edition Coraline stickers!! However, in order to unlock one of these stickers you need the special Laika event code. As I live in New Orleans, this is unfortunately not an option for me. Any help with this would be incredibly appreciated, and thank you for your time!
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Sorry, but I didn’t look for an event code. I wasn’t even aware there was one! Hopefully someone else out there has it! Thanks for visiting my blog!
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