#kubo and the two strings

ngoveronica:

If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see and hear, no matter how unusual it may seem. And please be warned: If you fidget, if you look away, if you forget any part of what I tell you - even for an instant - then our hero will surely perish.

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) dir. Travis Knight

linadraws:

Kubo was a beautiful movie.

pitiyindee:

Please win an Oscar already <3

- Piti Yindee

agentsphilinda:

get to know me meme: favorite animated movies [ 4 / 5 ]
    ↳ Kubo and The Two Strings (2016)

“Kubo and Beetle reunite for Fathers Day—and it’s a bullseye! We wish a wonderful, joyous celebration for you and your family.”

Via

As you can probably tell, this blog’s been empty for a while. Having to concentrate on professional endevours, I had to leave tumblr altogether and ran out of time to look after this place. I do apologize greatly for that, but I do also come with a lovely little update:

The (unofficial) Laika Community Discord

The Discord is a place we can discuss Laika, share fan creatives, meet eachother, and just generally interact in a community of those who laikaLaika.

So if you’re interested in catching up with some Laika minded people, I promise I’ll stop the Laika puns if you join us. ♥

- Mod Buttons

Kubo and the Two Strings, Travis Knight (2016)

Kubo sequel ain’t happening, but if it did… it might look like this:)

Work in progress of Kent Melton’s Beetle maquette. My character turn in the background.

Beetle is loosely based on my dad, goofy, thoughtful and a little bit forgetful. Sorry dad;-)

Monkey rages. Character expression bust by Christy Becker.

Grandfather maquette by Kent Melton. Design by me. Behind him you can see a 100+ year old Ningyo doll I purchased as inspiration when we started writing the film.

Kent Melton’s Monkey maquette, based on my original design. In the back, just behind Monkey, you can see the original 18.5 foot long lineup I delivered with the script.

The man himself, Kubo. Design by me. Sculpt by Kent Melton.

Kent Melton’s incredible maquettes of my designs.

A beat that I cut from the script. We lost this moment, but kept the giant skeleton:)

Sister. An attempt at mimicking/ adapting Kiyoshi Saito’s style. He was a huge inspiration on the film.

KUBO: IT ALL STARTS WITH AN IDEA… AND THEN GETS BIGGER

*If you haven’t read my other posts about the conception of KUBO, please scroll down:)

Ideas are very personal. As shared in a previous post, the story of KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS is no exception. Inspired by my wife’s relationship with her mother and the beauty of Japanese folktales, I put pen to paper 15 years ago and started to jot down ideas.

Once I had the initial concept in place, i picked away at it for years until I felt it was ready to go from something private to something shared. It had evolved from a small, poetic fairy tale to an epic journey. In other words, it was ready to pitch to the big boys.

In considering what might be the best home for Kubo, I immediately thought of Laika. I’d worked on Coraline in 2006 and had a feeling they might be get the tone I was going for with Kubo. 

So, after a few emails, a dinner pitch was on the books to share Kubo’s story with the folks from Laika at the Tam O’Shanter in Los Angeles. Walt Disney often met here with his story artists so it seemed an appropriate venue to pitch a film idea. I huddled into a tiny booth with the head of production, the head of development and the CEO, and pitched two ideas. Kubo was one of them and in one of those rare occasions, I could tell they liked it immediately. I finished the pitch (and my Yorkshire pudding) we shook hands, and went our separate ways. I sent them a copy of my original story and two weeks later, we began negotiations for an option. Great. Fine. Easy. Right?

Not really. The hard work was about to come… writing the script for Kubo.

If Kubo was born in my heart and mind, he grew up at Hugo’s restaurant in Studio City. That’s when Marc Haimes and I began working on the script. It was February, 2012, I had a cup of coffee, an almond energy pancake and the REAL work began.

More to come…

During early exploration, this was the 1st Monkey drawing that felt “right”. All paintings and maquettes after, began with this design.

i did some kubo fanart after watching the movie, great movie, recommend it

Kubo and the two strings - Fanart Kubo 

Michu2020