Laika CEO calls AI 'antithetical to everything' the stop-motion studio stands for
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-23
Travis Knight, CEO of stop-motion studio Laika (Coraline, ParaNorman), publicly rejected generative AI while promoting his five-year passion project Wildwood, calling it "antithetical to everything that we are at this studio."
The film involved 230+ puppets (36 of lead character Prue alone), 49 animators, and over 1,000 artists in some capacity — a painstaking handcrafted process that stands as a pointed counterpoint to what generative AI promises.
More from Companies & People
- xAI launches Grok for Startups with shared credits and 6-month dollar-for-dollar match — XFreeze · 2026-10-23
- ChatGPT makes ~$130M/month on the App Store, outspending Claude and Perplexity 6x on Meta ads — fekdaoui · 2026-10-23
- NVIDIA Opens 2027-2028 Graduate Fellowship Applications: Up to $60,000 Per Student — ArashVahdat · 2026-10-23
- Founder Gabriel: The scarcest signal in hiring is datapoints on trustworthiness — gabriel1 · 2026-10-23
- The scarcest signal at work is datapoints on how trustable someone is — gabriel1 · 2026-10-23
- Gabriel: Pretending you don't want to win is where the snakes come from — gabriel1 · 2026-10-23