Basically, the only modern studio consistently putting out stop motion animation movies, is Laika Studios. And yet, Laika has only had one financially successful movie, Coraline from 2009, while all their other movies have under performed.
However, Laika is currently led and owned by Travis Knight, son of Phil Knight, the owner of Nike. This has enabled Knight to continually bank roll Laika whenever they under perform, essentially making the entire stop motion animation film industry a nepo baby’s pet project.
That being said, this is actually a positive story, and reminiscent of how artists previously would be financially supported by wealthy benefactors.
huh. i loved the movie but i don’t remember him in it. now i’m wondering if i watched it in a language other than english (my first choice would have been vietnamese but that’s just because i don’t think i’ve watched any movies made by the vietnam film industry. I should fix that next week) with subtitles on, simply to have the audio’s aesthetic match the video’s.