Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

Summary

Laika's Wildwood, a sprawling fantasy adventure from the stop-motion studio, took five years to complete and used more than 230 puppets, with 49 animators and over 1,000 artists working on the film in some form. Director and Laika CEO Travis Knight has joined other filmmakers in speaking out, and the source describes the studio's painstaking process as a counterpoint to the instant progress promised by generative AI tools.