The Loch Ness Monster, who pops up early in the movie, required CG animation for most of its massive body. Yet this famously practical medium isn't CGI-free. A sequence set inside a stagecoach was powered by motors and rumble seats. The crew built a moving train and an accompanying track for it. The world the characters are given to inhabit is truly amazing. So we went for this very intricate, sculpted tufting, which was hand-sculpted in clay and then cast, and eventually he became a silicone puppet. His hair should look the same as the hair on the heads of the characters. I think because of the stylization of this movie, we decided that Link should. Butler and the "Missing Link" team found a way around this. Fur might be the most difficult part of the design of a given claymation character. And it doesn't help that he is the shape of an avocado. I think he took over a year to figure out, and really it's because he's covered in hair head to toe. He's certainly the most complicated puppet that we've ever had at the studio. I think the hardest character on "Missing Link" was probably Link himself. Even with the support system, this sequence was so complicated that it took about a year to shoot. But what do you do for the frames when its feet are off the ground? It can't mysteriously float, so you have a rig attached to it that will support its weight. If you think about a character jumping, while its feet are on the ground, you can manipulate that puppet. It also came in handy for some of the movie's action scenes like one that takes place on a collapsing ice bridge. This is helpful for puppets of unusual shapes and sizes and thus allows the animators to dream big. The rig doesn't help move the puppet but rather enables animators to manipulate it. Take for example its use of rigging systems as seen on this horse puppet. And though it's difficult, it's stood the test of time, and few places are doing it better right now than Laika, which was first founded in 2005 and continues to push the envelope while remaining true to stop-motion roots. The first stop-motion animation film is thought to be 1898's "The Humpty Dumpty Circus." It's a painstaking process in which objects are moved in small increments, frame by frame. He decided to direct "Missing Link" in the vein of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Around the World in 80 Days." And it was an idea 15 years in the making. It speaks to your childhood, when you're a kid, and you're playing with toys, and you're imagining them coming to life. I think for me stop-motion is truly special because it has a unique quality to it that almost go.
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