Laika (company)



Laika Entertainment, LLC., or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films. The studio is best known for its stop-motion feature films, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings, all co-produced in partnership with Universal Pictures through its Focus Features label. It is owned by Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight and is located in Oregon's Portland metropolitan area. Knight's son, Travis, acts as Laika's current president and CEO.


 * Creator Thumbprint: Some of them.
 * The stop-motion animation is very stunning, since this is Laika's main medium.
 * Dark fantasy stories about young kids having to face frightening supernatural forces.
 * Themes of family, mostly with abusive and/or villainous figures on top of familial love.
 * Darker and Edgier: Their films are really darker and intense than their counterparts from Pixar or Aardman Animations.
 * Shades of Conflict:
 * Coraline: Black and Grey Morality
 * ParaNorman: White and Grey Morality
 * The Boxtrolls: Darker Shade of Grey vs White Morality
 * ''Kubo and the Two Strings: White and Gray Morality
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The endings of the films leans towards idealistic, no matter how difficult the situations are presented.
 * Stop Motion: Their movies for the time being are stop motion animation, it's their specialty.