#laika missing link

[astrolionking]

Rough Sketches of a Laika crossover AU me and my partner made!

I can’t draw Lionel right yet lmao

But anyway, it’s an AU where a Lionel investigates a haunted, dark and seemingly ENDLESS forest after Susan went missing one day. On this journey, he needs a group of children who were taken and cursed by the forest, unable to escape. So, now his mission is to find Susan, lift the curse of the forest and leave.

And on the way, he becomes a father figure to these children and by the end, they’re like his foster children.

[captain-crowfish]

COLLICK IS INNOCENT!!!!!

[iamblue15]

Stop Motion is Orange🧡

[unsuspectinglionking]

Laika Forest AU

Finally redrew it after forever of saying I will and never doing it lmao

[laikaspotlight]

All Official LAIKA animatics, and then some.

It has come to our attention that LAIKA has removed the "Animatics" section from their website. Fear not, if you don't have the versions of the DVDs with the animatics included I have taken it upon myself to do a little bit of internet sleuthing, and nab them from an archived version of the website! [Please be aware that some of these animatic videos are sourced from individual artist's portfolios, and not the LAIKA website. Sources will be given upon request.]

Coraline

ParaNorman

Boxtrolls

Kubo

Missing Link

Additional notes: Most of the Kubo animatics were originally storyboards that I put together as MP4 files myself. You can find the originals here.

For the feature-length storyboards of every film, click here!

For auxiliary storyboards from an early draft of Boxtrolls; Click me! No, click me! You can click me, too!

[brokerkisser]

LOUD BANGING AGAINST THE BUS.

LET ME INNNN!!!

LET ME INNN!!!!!!

Silent sobbing

Get in Bitches, we're going to Shangri-La

[stale-cookie105]

the kids of laika (25/01/23)

i remember having a lot of fun drawing this until i remembered i forgot to draw susan link, so i included him in the other drawing lol

despite thinking otherwise now, i didn't think eggs would used to seeing a yeti despite being raised by trolls lmfao

[lightaphorism]

MoPop Hidden World: LAIKA exhibition ~ Seattle, Washington 🪡🧵🎞️🧟🗝️

[gus-dix]

my favs in laika's missing link. susan's color palette is everything that i love!

do not erase the caption, use or rePOST my art (reblog ok)

[valreblogsalot]

Regina Dunceby portrait ! 🖼️

[theemmtropy]

Laika movies in a nutshell:

Coraline: The poster child, the one referenced most (for good reason), fighting for its life not to be attributed to Tim Burton

Paranorman: The one you don't expect to emotionally destroy you and yet it does, every aspect of every character is spot on, very realistic for a movie about ghosts

The Boxtrolls: The one that could have had more potential had the antagonist not been a villainized working class drag queen, strange mix of body horror and education about antisemitic conspiracies

Kubo and the Two Strings: Heartbreaking story, strong characters and plot, you'll feel changed after watching it, weirdest choice of voice actors though

Missing Link: FINALLY confirmation that Bigfoot is related to Yetis, we ALL KNEW IT, unique take on Shangri-La, actual breaking of gender roles and tropes in media

[coraline-mel-jones]

Trip to Spooky Island. What could go wrong?

[matchboxcowboy]

Saw the Laika: Hidden Worlds exhibit at MoPop:

10/10 I approve :)

[mixed-up-media]

HOW THE LAIKA MOVIES CONNECT TOGETHER!!!!!

Also known as history of the beldam!

Warning: most of this is just crack. This was my shower thought this morning and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. None of this is canon. This is just dumb crap. It is held together by 2 strings, 3 old gum pieces, a roll of duct tape, and a used bandaid I found behind the school bleachers. This post is also a long one. You have been warned.

Ok, let's start off with something that has been bothering me, and the rest of the Coraline fandom, FOR YEARS! What is the Beldam? As far as the internet is concerned, she's the villain in Coraline, not much more than that. However, other sources say that another meaning of beldam is "old hag" or "witch" which makes sense. Something that also stuck out to me was another website stating she was an evil fairy. I feel like a beldam is not a singular term for the other mother but rather a species of evil fairies. Once again this connects to one of our favorite detail in that movie, the mushroom circle.

Mushroom circles are known throughout folktales as gateways to fairy realms. Keep this in mind! So what other thing is connected to fairy realms? OH YEAH, TROLLS!

So, I have not read "Here be monster," that is my summer reading goal, it just has to come. So I don't know what lore drops are in there, all I know is that the book is the reason people say Egg's real name is Arthur, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯! What I do know that that in most mythologies trolls are evil and here that is not the case. Something that I noticed in Boxtrolls and in the little info piece on amazon for "Here be monsters" is that both towns end with a bridge. Cheesebridge, Ratbridge, you get the picture. So that means to me is that the trolls are connected to bridges. If you don't know what I'm going for here is the trolls that live under toll bridges. You know that thing that we were all terrified of happening to us from Monty Python and the Holy grail, yeah that thing. They make it very clear there is some sort of connection." Lindow states that the etymology of the word "troll" remains uncertain, though he defines trolls in later Swedish folklore as "nature beings" and as "all-purpose otherworldly being[s], equivalent, for example, to fairies in Anglo-Celtic traditions". (Wikipedia)

Otherworldly you say? Well as a fandom, WE KNOW PLENTY ABOUT THAT! So I'm getting that there is some sort of fairy world situation going on. Like there's a world with magic separate from our own where creatures come from, K.

Some else I noticed was the similarities between Kubo's aunts and the other mother.

Notice the white faces,red lips, and lack of eyes. Now I'm aware that the sister's designs are biased off of the Geisha, however there is something else that connects them, the obsession with ripping a child's eye out, which I would assume is something Geisha women don't do ( I could be wrong.) So I feel like there is some sort of connection between the Beldam and the moon king. A partnership, a teacher of how to remove the eyes of kids, the biological mother of his children. (Low key shipping them)

Then there the witch situation. Witches have been known throughout history as evil, but we watched ParaNorman, and we paid attention! WE KNOW THEY'RE JUST MISUNDERSTOOD! So we've established that there's magic, but we've never really come up with where the magic comes from. I have a whole theory on why Norman can see ghosts, ( I'll post that one later) but I'm pretty sure the magic effects genetics. Now, hear me out, what if the magic comes from the magic fairy realm thing from earlier.

SO POSSIBLE TIMELINE, MAYBE!

A LONG LONG LONG LONG TIME AGO, the Pre-Beldam Fairy was just livin her life. She discovers some sort of dark magic and turn evil. She goes down to earth but uses a portal thing to get there. Out from that portal thing comes some trolls that find a home under a bridge. After years of evolution they become boxtrolls. Then Beldam fairy meets the moon king and has his daughters helps him tear his grandsons eye out. The fairies in charge are like: Dude, the frick is wrong with you, and banashes her to what would become the american continent. They also strip her of her powers which then finds its way to the other side of the soon to be continent. There her magic connects to several families including the one of a little girl with long black hair. Over in Oregon country the beldam finds herself hiding for years and years. Eventually a family of pioneers show up and build a house. Not wasting any time, the beast uses her dark powers and finds a small hole in the wall. She discovers that it's made out of some of the magic ripped from her and uses it for her advantage. Eventually she develops the persona of "The Other World," and The other Mother. She eats kids souls until a blue haired girl defeats her. Who knows if she actually killed her or not!

How does Missing Link fit all this? Well TADA

Lionel found an old monkey carving from a old Japanese town, a newspaper clipping from a few years back about "Boxtrolls" and an old book from back when the mayflower first set sale (I feel like the book was something Aggie's mom brought with her to the new world and read it to Aggie for years)

THE END

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[laikaspotlight]

Full Length Storyboards Now Available

Hello Laikans! Mod Rampage has kindly uploaded the full length storyboards featured on the Shout! Factory releases to the internet archive for everyone’s viewing pleasure!

Please note that as Missing Link has not received a Shout! Factory release (much to our chagrin), those storyboards are not available and not on this link.

Happy viewing!

If you or someone you know are in possession of Missing Link storyboards or any other rare/lost LAIKA content, or have any information, please contact us at laikaarchivists@gmail.com