For example, imagine connecting a piece with a picture of a house to the letters H.O.U.E.S. Kubo would first travel over the House to understand that it is spelling house, then would travel over ...

Sponsor Message With Kubo, Laika adds more texture to the dark beauty that's been the house style since Coraline, but it's more emotionally expansive, too. There's plenty of wry humor and samurai ...

Kubo follows the fantastical quest of a young ... We don’t really want a house style and we want every film to feel unique. For something like this, where we’re telling a big fantasy story ...

From the beginning, stop-motion animation house Laika set itself apart from ... and Alice Bird, art director on “Kubo and the Two Strings,” are four of the high-profile women creating ...

Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson ... the internal skeletons -- called armatures -- which are all designed in-house at LAIKA with wires, steel, and ball and socket joints, then topped with the ...

Kubo and the Two Strings is an uncommonly luxurious ... As I said two years ago, there is no current filmmaking production house out there that is more exciting to me than Laika.

Kubo And The Two Strings premieres Aug. 19 and brings a more whimsical, story-book quality in comparison. In the film from celebrated animation house LAIKA (Coraline, The Boxtrolls) is set in ...

In stark contrast to the splendor of the Santos House is the Apolinario Mabini Shrine, a humble bahay-kubo on the banks of Pasig River in Manila. The house is a typical bahay-kubo, found in the ...

With Kubo we had a canvas on which we could paint ... exploring the woods near my house. I spent a lot of time creating, doing things in a solitary way. And when I wasn’t doing that, my entire ...

Those structures, reflecting the design of the Philippine “bahay kubo” (traditional hut), became ... it was time to build the family’s dream house that would showcase their love for bamboo.

She had renovated it so that she could rent it out. It was sturdier than the usual kubo, with the floor and some of the walls made of concrete. If a strong wind swept through the house, the nipa ...