Behind the scenes of Kubo and the Two Strings - BBC Click

Kubo and the Two Strings is the latest stop-motion feature from Laika Films. Their three previous films were all nominated for Academy Awards.
Al Moloney sat down with director Travis Knight to talk about the process of making the film and how it merged traditional stop-motion animated techniques with cutting edge technology.
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[@noahzcustomz2447]

5 years to create a 2 hour movie I️ respect that

[@ChrisARTpher]

Me to

[@joanatranter2798]

:o

[@fire-ke2sf]

same.

[@ind0266]

Some take even longer. Entertainment takes a long time. But it’s so rewarding

[@bats_enthusiast]

I understand there work 😔🤞

[@kresi3283]

this film was insane, and deserves sooo much more praise.

[@carlotizz]

hey it got nominated for an oscar but it lost to zootopia

[@Mario87456]

@@carlotizz Zootopia only won because it was Disney and because it pandered to SJWs.

[@parthernnixxart4623]

@@carlotizz I like zootopia, but I think it only won because of its more kinda Real world message, Both films did amazing, but Kubo did a lot better with art in my opinion

[@ilyemsan]

I almost cried during some parts of Kubo just because of all the detail and how beautiful it is and all the work that was put into it

[@pupp1e]

I cried of how terrifying it was.

[@lollove9974]

Lol me too

[@13Percent52PercentYikes]

🙄

[@omkarzarkar1021]

@@pupp1e And I didn't cry at all.

[@yytyyy5329]

​@@omkarzarkar1021same

[@saledarius9014]

Kubo should've won Oscars Best Animated Feature

[@henrylam92]

You should check out Missing Link (available on Hulu) by the same studio. They almost won the Oscar (won golden globe) but were beat by Toy Story 4

[@aquaticlibrary]

@@henrylam92 which was ridiculous because Toy Story 4 was not that great lol

[@_aquamarina9308]

@@aquaticlibrary I stop at Toy story 3 (maybe the best in my opinion), the further isnt fit for me anymore

[@degiguess]

this movie only had a 60 million dollar budget which is insanely low for an animated movie especially one with this much heart and soul put into it in comparison the emoji movie (which had an insanely low budget at the attempt of making it as safe to produce as possible) had a 50 million dollar budget basically Kubo and the emoji movie basically had the same budget which just goes to show that the emoji movie has 0 fucking excuses

[@KiernanMoore]

ILoveToLose Yeah, animated puppets. The process is called stop motion animation, it existed long before computer generated animation.

[@caifre7649]

ILoveToLose this is called stop-motion animation.

[@ZSLibyStudios]

@@CartoonWarStudios You have no room to talk. You need to take your own message.

[@CartoonWarStudios]

ZSLiby Studios A. Can’t even see the comment you were replying to anymore, B. the comment I was replying to was wrong, C. fuck off

[@referenceyouwouldntget7072]

but the emoji movie wasn't a passion project

[@Arcticwhir]

Wow, not only does all that take amazing minds and technologies. But huge amount of patience. interesting video.

[@nobodynobody4947]

reported'

[@badvsgud75]

ArcticPoise yrcgfcdguu7654321890

[@fabdan5745]

I watched the movie at least 3 times. But after seeing this making of video, I loved the movie the more. OMG! The stop-motion process is incredible, and explains why Kubo & the 2 Strings is such an extraordinary piece of art. Hats off guys, for the minds, technologies and oh-patience put into this incredible film! Wow

[@briannalee1998]

Fabrice Dan same! So much work was put into it

[@StrawberryNinjaNibbles]

That skeleton puppet was beautiful

[@apa2_jela]

By far, this is the best stop motion movies ever

[@Meeeemeemem]

This was the best movie of my childhood, this was insanely creative I would NEVER think of something like this if I made movies, so cool, it's very realistic. 5 years would've been worth it to make this masterpiece, it's beautiful

[@in10minutes79]

I salute all the people who made this movie possible

[@Erik-rp1hi]

This studio is Fantastic!

[@Deinobi]

In my opinion Travis Knight is Fantastic

[@stillmotion2720]

@@Deinobi fact*

[@bluelightstudios6191]

rest assured that everyone who worked hard behind this movie knows how much we loved their movie, its super underrated but you got to admit, it was super incredible and the amount of effort that went into it shows that there was still soul in the movie industry

[@flylikeanowl8667]

Far too underrated. My mentor for animation showed me this video some years back. He died, now I think about him when seeing this. Found this incredible piece of art through him. And I definitely need this as a dvd at home!!

[@yiduojinzhengu]

he said therer mistakes in every single frames. what. i mean, whaaaaaaaaat.

[@TheNascomplex]

He's speaking as an artist, HE feels there are ways they can improve and be better. Things they've kept in mind for their next project

[@orangebar2693]

hulkbuster if u look like SUPER closely at all the scenes u can a the very slight mess up every once and a while but somehow it makes it work even better I feel like

[@amanpotdar]

*He's a fucking genius, obviously he's holding himself on a standard that we can't even imagine how high enough it could be*

[@potato5830]

I feel so proud of the people making this movie because of the detail and stop motion and action and so many people probably don’t even know how hard they worked to make even 2 minutes of the movie. Props to you guys!

[@artsyfartsy6286]

I can listen to him speak forever.

[@mizukihattori9716]

I didn't know that it was stop motion!

[@lillithlimit0987]

Mizuki Soh it was quite obvious to me.

[@mizukihattori9716]

FloraFrozenPhoenix I mean that the movie was made with stop motion. If I hadn't seen this video, I will assume the whole thing will be CGI.

[@lucpuffle]

Some water was CGI

[@salvols1618]

Mizuki Soh For anyone that knew anything about animation or its production it obvious.

[@nobodynobody4947]

they worked together with the company laika. laika is known for their stop motion animations.

[@TomGrigat]

OMG, it's soooo incredible great and beautiful - my stopmotion tries are so unworthy compared with this masterpiece... wow

[@kartjeeva]

maybe you can do it better one day. my wishes

[@dayne8966]

Tom Grigat vfrvefvEwwefvrfvdgbrgbynunui,I'll,lllilyinghbrgsdcergbthbthjgkmguth

[@Deinobi]

@@dayne8966 what?

[@hopebringer2348]

I believe in you!!

[@velixur0000]

@@dayne8966 me too

[@AiNoMiko]

This particular audience member doesn't just want to be taken on a journey... if I could just huddle in a corner of one part of the studio, and even watch them make part of ONE scene... I would die happy. It's such an incredible feat to behold! This animation style, and yes, this movie, need more love!

[@Doc_Tar]

More people need to see and appreciate this film.

[@artlessdiamondmedia]

This movie is amazing. A masterpiece in my eyes. One of my favorite movies of all time. I cannot thank everyone who made this movie enough in my mind. 5 years for a 2 hr movie. I acknowledge the time & labor. I am happy. I hope you are still happy. I hope for more movies from this production team & a Sequel!

[@xalaxy3249]

Stop motion animators have so much patience!

[@mizstinkie]

This is so fucking beautiful. I love how REAL everything is. Quite literally this requires real skill

[@galacticglitch4086]

This movie is a masterpiece,and must be treated as such...

[@lettus143]

My sons, mostly my older 2 who are 8 and 7, are so inspired by your work. When they found your personal channel where you post your flip books they went on a craze making flip books every day. My son was gifted a camera that comes with a little tripod stand for Christmas and i know there is a desire to try stop motion. Thank you for inspiring others through your dedication to your craft.

[@monicalidiadragan8303]

I watched that movie once,and MAN it was good!

[@i-deni-i5138]

From my childhood on when I started to understand what movies are, I taught myself stop motion animation without any help from youtube videos or else and seeing this making of and how you actually have to move every part of the puppets body for every frame is bringing back the memories when I made stop motion with lego bricks and that incredible amount of work you have to put into it for a few seconds, not to speak for an hour and half of animation. That would be my dreamjob no matter how painfully long it can be :)

[@MrAnon00]

I wish that Laika got the recognition and success that it deserves...

[@csmemarketing]

You know, I'm just watching this movie in 2022, and I had no idea you really did this using actual stop motion! You guys are insane to do it this way. You could have made this entire film using CGI to make stop motion with close to the same look. I don't know how you got the skin shader to look that good, so I definitely thought was cgi, especially the water in the opening scene. Amazing work.

[@juanakravitz3024]

God this takes 110% patience, devotion and creativity and the complete work shows as a masterpiece 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@afzalhakimbinzairini956]

Travus Knight has made not one but two of my favourite movies of all time.Kubo and The Two Strings and Bumblebee 2018.

[@afzalhakimbinzairini956]

*Travis Knight

[@elive19]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED this movie!!! It is my all time favourite movie because it is just sooooo beautiful and the five years it took to make it totally payed off. I am inspired to try my hand at stop-motion.

[@AllIsFiller]

Travis has done alot of amazing things with stop motion can't wait to see what he does next

[@saschagruber6510]

I saw the movie and didn't know anything about its production... and loved it. Now I admire it too!

[@kxt1e484]

Kubo is so underated :(((((((

[@soudelnoop]

yea, criminally underrated

[@basantatamang2249]

@@soudelnoop sad.

[@CHAMPIONTIPS]

Unbelievable, It's incredible 👏🏼 My family and I still love this movie sooo much even six years later

[@caprisun2830]

Stop motion animation is so beautiful

[@creamsoda4083]

Mad respect for this

[@PC3inc]

This is one of my favorite movies

[@TimingSmile]

I respect their work so much. No joke I do stop motion and this is extremely crazy.

[@ZeonNewtype]

I found the movie to be beautifully done, and seeing and hearing more about what went into creating it just makes me appreciate it that much more. One thing that’s really mind blowing to me is just how large the puppet for the giant skeleton was. They didn’t scale down the characters to make it look bigger than it was, they actually built it to be big. Stop motion really is an art all its own, and I don’t think the people that work on these films get enough credit for all of the work that has to go into bringing us what we see on the screen.

[@betsy1947]

Amazing and sooooo creative and fun!

[@justiceroarknathanronzales958]

This movie is brilliant... More people need to see it...

[@dawnezone8491]

So awesome..love the movie..this makes it more so..thanx

[@fd3]

One of the most amazing movies and stories I’ve ever seen 🙂

[@yuko6197]

I have to say: I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH

[@iriichan]

all the respect to themm!!!

[@anhameu]

woow.. it's so georgeus. i don't think that i can make it without a super skills. how you guys can make it? unbelieveable

[@safaltashrestha]

yes it is extraordinary WOW

[@dvivid8834]

This man is the real artist

[@paybik9585]

Best stop motion film movie ever this is a beautiful and I say beautiful movie they worked very hard and I’m thankful that they made this movie.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kingalex105x7]

This just blows my mind

[@Daehawk]

Amazing work.

[@coolguyalex127]

This movie is so freakin good. I recommend to all!

[@Dstrshn]

Great movie! Congrats.

[@keigoski8896]

I watched this movie years ago when it came out and now I just watched this I’m just shookeh

[@upperdecker9992]

I loved this movie

[@user-mz5ff1sg7j]

This movie is so amazing beautiful smart creativity ❤

[@jonmayestv]

Awesome!

[@eddielouisemoran5881]

I hate that these sets just sit in a warehouse somewhere. It really deserves to be displayed in an art museum somewhere. I’d be surprised if LA doesn’t have a film museum

[@boneyskeleton101]

Tremendous respect

[@jasperguilanda9310]

👏 Amazing truely amazing

[@cenizafranciskarlempleo8-a745]

0:26 hey!Its the guy who made the BEST transformers movie.Any complainers around?

[@lucwijngaard8413]

Watched it on TV, it was amazing

[@ayanamiayachanJ]

I watched on Netflix

[@coronavirus5625]

The giant skeleton was my favorite part in the movie

[@leonardosantiago4274]

Nice going guys! Well Done!!!

[@kuromisforever]

the fact that it lost to zootopia is my villian origin story

[@sammyjohn.production4783]

Omg omg omg omg the patient they have making it owwww inspired

[@Yoooooooooo1122]

I didn’t know Kevin Parry worked on this movie. I’ve watched it so many times now and OMIGOSH KEVIN PARRY

[@jenelynepic6936]

"If you must blink,do it now"

[@khangmal3563]

They didn't make movie, they made Masterpiece

[@maxdon2001]

Interesting stuff!

[@yoriichitsugikuni967]

Respect

[@alleyclay1658]

this must've token forever to move the charcters that are like fighting and the voices but it looks so real :O

[@mememaster2187]

I could make a stop motion movie if I had the time and patience

[@Ownxer]

Everyone can, just most don't have the time or patience.

[@Andrew-fi1sd]

Don't tell me none of you made shitty stop-motion videos with Lego because pretty much everyone I knew as a kid has tried at some point

[@aearion519]

@@Andrew-fi1sd I'm 18 years old and I didn't even know there was such a thing called stop motion until last year lmao

[@Andrew-fi1sd]

@@aearion519 What kinda rock you living under

[@aearion519]

@@Andrew-fi1sd I live in middle east I couldn't live my childhood I'm developing myself with these films

[@SeamusLeGris]

I didnt even realise this was stop motion until i remebered Its the same company as coraline and then looked a little harder. I thought they put a slower frame rate to give it a stop motion "effect'. Ive never in my life witnessed a stop motion production so beautifully impressive. The collaboration between so many art forms and technology/robotics and camera work. What a show of how far humans have come at story telling. I'd give anything for one of those puppets or even one of the faces/masks 🥺 WHO gets go keep those?! Lol

[@wamijaaja5772]

Respect 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@SeamusLeGris]

THEY DID THE WATER AS STOP MOTION?! I thought for sure at least the water was compiter generated. INSANE

[@thecookj454]

Such a good movie. Stop motion is my favorite kind of animation. I don't know why but I got a lot of Coco vibes when I watched it

[@Zombiesnyder13]

I'm gonna watch the new Bumblebee movie just because of this

[@axelpettersson1482]

Laika deserve more love and for me it is the american studio ghibli

[@sheebamanoj.k9924]

I love how he hard worked for a two hour movie

[@neithyuannpincil6218]

They realy make a hard work to make a movie

[@frickinfrick8488]

I just rewatched Kubo again and it is still one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. This is peak stop motion animation and beautifully shows all the potential in the medium. I wish it made more money

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Wow, I can’t believe this actually came out 4 YEARS AGO. It soo deserved the OSCAR instead of the other film which got it, which obviously these days is inherently forgettable.

[@Steelburgh]

How Zootopia beat out both Kubo and Moana, I will never understand.

[@Steelburgh]

I mean I do understand; it's because the Academy and its criteria are a joke.

[@DarkSpino306]

I think CGI films are overused, my favorite style is 2D animation, but I have a lot of respect for Stop-Motion.

[@kenlim9223]

Some people work hard to make a movie, people who hate the movie, Respect them making a movie.

[@dorisprettyman8149]

nice movie :)

[@GyaruJ3lly]

Now I want to work at a studio

[@itisricha]

WHAT THIS MOVIE IS *STOP MOTION?!* BRO I NEVER KNEW THAT! (This movie made me cry in my bed 😂)

[@aquaticlibrary]

Lmao you really couldn’t tell?

[@emmielazatin5447]

Wow i didn't know that kevin parry was there

[@GamesMaester]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@techgameshorizon]

Awesome 😃

[@TheMarionick]

Why did Zootopia have to win the Oscar for fuck sake. It's so overrated

[@dxthakid4727]

TheMarionick it talked about rascism and deep topics, besides just because it's a cgi movie, doesn't mean they didn't work hard people think that cgi is easier and handrawn and stop motion animators work hard, but 2 weeks of an animators work can fill 10 seconds of a film (in cgi)

[@orangebar2693]

TheMarionick zootopia sucked

[@OpinionatedMonk]

I bought a dog. The only dog I've only ever wanted in my life since I was a kid. He's a dobermann. He's big, beautiful, and the friendliest, strongest, most defiant and loyal companion. He's called Kubo.

[@pb5260]

フルCGだと思って見終わったのに、エンディングロールでストップモーション映画だったことに気づき唖然としました。 本編より撮影中のメイキング動画の方が面白そうです。

[@JoshucaVA]

The last good Laika film. Hopefully the next will be great. Also, I really don't like the false information that he implies about other animation styles. Edit: I DO like his use of the word LoFi. He actually knows what it means and I like that.

[@reopri-lz7yw]

Hmmm how many days it tooked to make this film?

[@gameanime8961]

reopri9000 I read from other comments, they said 5 years.. wow..

[@reopri-lz7yw]

Let'sPlayGames goddam

[@plasmic7968]

Imagine someone tripped and dropped the figure. How long would that take to fix?!?!?

[@basantatamang2249]

Oh no....