EXCLUSIVE: Laika’s "Wildwood" took five years to complete its terrifying murder of crows sequence, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
“We had to reinvent our processes in so many ways to meet the demands of this project. It was the largest and most complex film we’ve tion designer Nelson Lowry.
Watch the scene here: variety.com/2026/film/news…
“We had to reinvent our processes in so many ways to meet the demands of this project. It was the largest and most complex film we’ve tion designer Nelson Lowry.
Watch the scene here: variety.com/2026/film/news…
Oct 15, 2026 · 3:44 PM UTC
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@Varietyhomage, since The Birds already had an animator's hands all over it. Many of its attack shots were finished at Disney by Ub Iwerks, the man who co-created Mickey Mouse, using a sodium vapor "yellow screen" because ordinary blue screen left fringes around all those flapping wings. Five years of crows sounds about right.
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@Variety five years for one sequence is insane, the crows deserve a credit
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@Variety five years for crows when hitchcock just opened a window
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