Adam Savage visits the puppets department of @LAIKAStudios to meet the characters of their new film Wildwood. Oliver Jones, Head of Character and Practical Effects, introduces Adam to the range of stop-motion puppets created for the film to give us a close look at the intricate design, fabrication, and engineering that goes into each of these incredible puppets.
Wildwood is in theaters October 23rd and tickets are available at: https://wildwoodmovie.com/
Shot by Joey Fameli and Josh Self
Edited by Joey Fameli
Music by Jinglepunks
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00:00 - Smallest Armature
00:18 - Inside LAIKA's Puppet Department
01:10 - Puppet Scale
02:02 - Costume Fabrication & Micro-Engineering
05:29 - Prue & Small Puppet Challenges
06:41 - Traditional Wire Hands vs. Puppet Wear
08:09 - Inside Prue's Digital & Physical Armature
09:49 - Puppet Hospital
11:13 - Spring Steel Armature Hands
13:01 - Investment Casting & Hand Paddles
15:00 - Septima: LAIKA’s Smallest Animatable Armature
18:06 - Silicon Fur Fabrication & VFX Collaboration
21:31 - External Rigging
23:03 - Mechanical Chest Rigs
24:02 - Engineering Animatable Muscles
26:09 - R&D Bird Armature & The Scale of LAIKA
27:15 - Final Thoughts
Intro bumper by Abe Dieckman
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