Visual Effects Team Q – A: Kubo and the Two Strings
Visual Effects Team Q&A: ‘Kubo and the Two Strings'
“Typically people, when they think about animated films, they don't think of them in a live act context,”” divulges visual effects supervisor Steve Emerson during our latest webcam talk (witness above) when asked about his Oscar nomination for “Kubo and the Two Strings.” The Laika Entertainment production is the very first stop movement animated film to be nominated for Best Visual Effects since “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993). “The reality of the work we're doing here is it's live act film production, we're doing live activity visual effects. …