How animation studios and artists work their magic on TikTok
Telling wonderful stories in less than a minute
In May, Laika — the Oregon-based stop motion animation studio behind films like Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and Missing Link — won everyone’s heart with a funny and endearing 1-minute TikTok video mixing live-action and animation.
The clip, which was inspired by the stunt-driven #fightchallenge, shed a light on how TikTok is emerging as a go-to platform for exquisite animation content.
Allowing users to create videos of up to 60 seconds, the increasingly popular video-sharing app (it recently reached 2 billion downloads) is a great destination for concise storytellers and artists who want to showcase snippets of their animation bravura.
And if you think that one paltry minute is not enough to tell a story, let’s not forget that are heaps of great short films (both animated and live-action) clocking in at less than 60 seconds.
Big studios like Laika and Adult Swim are starting to learn how to harness the…
