The animated film goes through a particularly productive stage, something that also helps the public to respond so positively to most titles coming to theaters. It also helps that increasingly proliferate more sequels or titles that basically no longer small variations of what we have seen on countless occasions. Exits more profitable not to risk, but the Laika study refuses to fall into that temptation .
The company behind ‘Coraline’, ‘The ParaNorman’ and ‘the Boxtrolls’ has been based so far by not being afraid to try different things that seduce the public. Of course, none of them have reached the level that displays ‘Kubo and the two magic string’ , a jewel that has recently started its way through theaters around the world and it has virtually everything to be ideal for any lover of animation film.
An ambitious proposal
One of the aspects that attracted the most attention priori ‘Kubo and the two magic string’ is a US based company addresses a clearly oriental mythology, something unusual in the western animated film. The original source of this unusual bet we have Travis Knight, director of the same, but also president and CEO of Laika , as he visited Japan when he was only eight years old and always wanted to reflect on screen fascination felt then.
However, the initial germ concrete ‘Kubo and the two magic string’ arises from Shannon Tindle , a designer of characters Laika proposed the idea when the study was focused on the creation of ‘the ParaNorman’. The proposal Tindle, focused on telling the epic story of a samurai through stop-motion, wowed Knight in such a personal way that decided it was the ideal material for his directorial debut.
In addition , Knight personal weakness of Japanese culture led him to spare no expense to hire all kinds of experts but not just to this point, as we shall see later. They also performed work large field, something the attentive eye will discover during the thanks of the end credits with references to places like the Japanese Museum.
In addition, they proceeded to study the work of various artists Japanese, highlighting the influence ‘Kubo and the two magic string’ Kiyoshi Saito. All that previous work no longer the animation itself but to the simple design of the characters and scenarios, Laika took almost three years . The reason? They wanted everything to feel real, but also part of their own universe that would achieve connect with the audience and to do any kind of shortcut was discarded.
A giant step in terms of animation
it seems clear that animation stop-motion has a number of limitations that prevents you from being able to fight one on one in the section of realism with other titles that are reaching such a degree of perfection that bit them it is to be confused with a real picture film. However, what really matters is not real, but a set of rules and respect for the viewer is created without doubt what happens on the screen.
That is one aspect taken care of in ‘Kubo and the two magic strings’, but it’s not preclude its leaders have proposed to go beyond all possible with the stop-motion, stopping at no time to think there was something that was impossible to do. To do this we chose, whenever possible, build themselves both characters through puppets, as the scenarios themselves.
The main goal was to offer a stylized vision the universe raised and at the same time was entirely plausible. For example, for water scenes he was hired David Horsley , who had already demonstrated his control of the element through the use of CGI in ‘Life of Pi’ where he also had this almost magical realism that Laika also sought here with these sequences.
in terms of the characters, models were created either manually or using 3D printers with technology that was still experimental. Thus, ‘Kubo and two magic string’ has the first model made in full form in this way, but a large gold work was also done to others through origami paper. There is room for both the latest developments as pure craftsmanship.
Neither they hesitated to use other materials such as plastic or silicone, so that certain characters have the closeness and expressiveness sought, though perhaps even more amazing is that even tried to manually recreate certain elements, such as water scenes themselves supervised by Horsley, who were then changed through the use of CGI. So was achieved at all times is to have a clear idea of what was sought in every scene and so that then got a perfect fusion of both techniques .
Perhaps the the largest created by them so far, they created following what they had learned in ‘the Boxtrolls’ and inspired so recognized in the work of Ray Harryhausen in Jason most striking achievement of all is the huge puppet of a skeleton, and the Argonauts’. It measured a whopping five meters and was used a control technique similar movement to that of flight simulators paying particular attention to his remarkable weight did not make it come down.
How solved so difficult undertaking? For combining high technology used to move the torso of the creature rather craft solutions: a series of tied to the wrists of the skeleton cables and the ceiling of the set made counterweight, ensuring it using a large filled buckets sacks of sand. Incredible but true and the result looks great on screen.
An exciting adventure
However, the visual feat that is “Kubo and two ropes magic ‘would not be so not having a story that would connect with the public. For this purpose by the now traditional story of we chose a young man giving step toward maturity , something we have already seen on many occasions and, despite everything, here meets great purpose to be the last piece of this fascinating puzzle and even feels like something new, with its own voice.
as is logical, film animated actors lose the most physical aspect of his interpretation, a task that is entrusted to the animators. However, Laika joined a cast of real luxury for the original version of the film, including Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey -the first animated production in which participation or Rooney Mara in order that the voice of the characters also possessed that was dramatic desired.
in addition, all the characters have very particular features that reflect both their general mood as that by which They happen in certain scenes. Perhaps the biggest caveat are sinister sisters who have the voice of Mara , since that is what is sought is that their masks reminded the Noh theater, where there is a kind of being that comes down from heaven adopting human form, with his body and nonverbal language that has to convey emotions, and here they succeed.
in the purely narrative, the script Marc Haimes, and Chris Butler stands for their respectful and impeccable approach to Japanese folklore to create its own universe and do it in a much more accessible to Western audiences than other animated productions made in that country. A bet that could have unbalanced the film, but his triumph is what finally taken ‘Kubo and the two magic strings’ to another level. “
Indispensable in all aspects
A review of all the virtues of ‘Kubo and two magic string’ leaves us having A simple but effective and very neat story by their responsible . In addition, it is located in a fascinating world full of imagination captured brilliantly for animation work not hesitate to use various techniques taking as the basis the singular charm of stop-motion.
All this seasoned well with characters who feel real and situations with an emotional core that is almost impossible not to find details that one can be reflected . To this we add the incredible affection with which it has been made and the fact that it has not made any concessions in order to obtain the largest commercial revenue, something that in the future could pose a problem for the continuity of Laika- so explore fully all its essence.
Taking all that into account, then clearly there is a possibility that there are people who do not like it, because it is impossible to find a movie that meets that requirement, but the paper has the ingredients to fascinate anyone. Both children and adults and also those who prefer the Western animated films or those who have a preference for Asia with Ghibli the head encontrán reasons to enjoy this wonderful cross between so many things to see for yourself
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