Animating Life, the Laika Exhibit at Portland Art Museum

December 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment

I’ve seen all the Laika movies – first Coraline, then ParaNorman, Boxtrolls, and finally the most recent (and my favorite), Kubo and the Two Strings. If you haven’t heard of Laika, they are a Portland stop-motion animation movie studio. Think of them like our local Pixar, bringing storytelling to the screen that appeals to adults and children. Recently the Portland Art Museum opened a special Laika exhibit Animating Life that showcases some of the behind the scenes of how Laika created those movies, and it’s worth a visit. The exhibit runs until May 20.
At the Laika exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, this display shows how Laika scaled the giant skeleton (here 18 feet, which is 1/5 scale of the 90 feet in human scale the monster is in the story) to the average height of the other characters Kubo (9.25 inches), Monkey (13 inches), Beetle (21 inches), and Hanzo Origami (2 inches). At the Laika exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, this display shows how Laika scaled the giant skeleton (here 18 feet, which is 1/5 scale of the 90 feet in human scale the monster is in the story) to the average height of the other characters Kubo (9.25 inches), Monkey (13 inches), Beetle (21 inches), and Hanzo Origami (2 inches).
Laika scaled the giant skeleton (here 18 feet, which is 1/5 scale of the 90 feet in human scale the monster is in the story) to the average height of the other characters Kubo (9.25 inches), Monkey (13 inches), Beetle (21 inches), and Hanzo Origami (2 inches). I am not to scale with the characters. 
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