The Man Who Brought Stop-Motion Animation Into the 21st Century

Travis Knight, the lead stop motion animation artist at Laika and his team have been putting together another stunning stop motion animation called Boxtrolls. Boxtrolls has the same kind of creepy feel as his other Oscar nominated movies including Coraline and ParaNorman. The team at Laika continues to come up with new ways to make rapid prototyping and 3D printing in the puppets faces better and better. Knight has found a way to combine stop motion animation with computer generated effects and the results have been amazing as showing in Coraline and ParaNorman Each stop motion animation Travis knight works on, he applies those skills to the next animation so that they become better and more advanced.


Boxtrolls is a new stop motion animation about a boy names eggs who is adopted by boxtrolls. the people of the town believe that boxtrolls are dangerous and are trying to get rid of them. eggs is on a mission to save his adopted family and prove that boxtrolls are harmless.

i was very excited when i saw that the link was about the Boxtrolls. I actually got to see the boxtrolls on Saturday night at the drive-in. i love the style they use in these stop motion animations and thinking of how long it must have taken to make this movie is amazing. personally i don't think i could have the patience to make a movie like this. Coraline is actually one of my favorite movies and it was cool finding out that the same people made the Boxtrolls and ParaNorman.