{
  "id": 14248540,
  "title": "Laika’s ‘Wildwood’ VFX Supervisor Steve Emerson Details the Making of Travis Knight’s Stop-Motion Epic",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/laikas-wildwood-vfx-supervisor-steve-emerson-details-the-making-of",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-13T16:57:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/artisans/global/laika-wildwood-vfx-supervisor-steve-emerson-view-conference-1236910262/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Laika’s “Wildwood” took more than five years of stage animation and visual-effects work, with 2,776 shots requiring a carefully orchestrated mix of handmade puppets, miniature sets and digital imagery. But for production VFX supervisor Steve Emerson, the defining challenge of Travis Knight’s fantasy epic was ensuring that the technology served the stop-motion performances rather than […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}