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patterning from our initial animation
tests. We're trying to make sure the
effect is not getting in the way of the
storytelling.
"The distinctive look of Kubo's
opening scene would not have been
possible without the combined efforts
of multiple departments across the
studio," Emerson stresses. "Animation,
rigging, lighting, camera, art and visual
effects came together and collaborated
on what I view as one of the most
beautiful and exciting environments
we've ever created."
Reflecting on his collaborators'
contributions to the movie as a whole,
Knight offers, "I knew at the outset
that I was saddling Frank with a nearly
impossible task. We needed to make a
stop-motion David Lean film. A
small-scale movie shot on a tabletop
needed to look like a large-scale epic.
And he did it. Frank Passingham is an
artist and a first-rate storyteller. It's
been an honor to have spent the last

Sprenger works
with Kubo and
Kameyo on the
village set.

two years with him slogging through
the mire of the puppet mines, sweating
the details. Now it's a thrill to share
this hard-fought bit of our lives with
the rest of the world."
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