![]() And there are no Yeti Temples! So, I combined Indian Hill, Brutalist and Jainism architecture to create the final design. When you make any nod to another culture’s mythologies, you want to honor, not ‘ape’ them. LOWRY: We made many passes of the Temple’s architecture. So, I had lots of conversations with Nelson, and we were trying to figure out, what could this ancient civilization look like? So, rather than man not growing old, it’s a place where man hasn’t evolved-i.e., it’s the place where Yetis live, because they are the missing link. Chris wanted it to feel like a reward to the viewer, something truly wondrous.ĬHRIS BUTLER: thing to do was to figure out, what would a Yeti temple look like? Culturally, what is that? I took the idea that comes originally from Lost Horizon, which is that Shangri-La is a place where man never grows old, and kind of played with it. NELSON LOWRY: Designing Shangri-La was the biggest challenge as it was the only location that doesn’t exist. ![]() Shangri-La: The Yeti Temple & Its Ice Bridge Laika Studios/United Artists Releasing ![]() Ultimately, the journey of bringing the film to life was every bit as exciting and taxing as the one that Frost and his companion, themselves, experienced.īelow, Butler joins three of Missing Link’s key creatives-producer Arianne Sutner, production designer Nelson Lowry and visual effects supervisor Steve Emerson-in breaking down the creation of two spectacular sets, as well as the process of executing moments of complex action within them. With its large cast of memorable characters, its enormous environments and its meticulously crafted action sequences, the globetrotting picture gave LAIKA “a totally new playground in which to play,” Butler says. With his second feature, following 2012’s ParaNorman, Butler’s goal was to bring the energy of an epic, live-action adventure film into the medium of stop-motion. 'Missing Link' Director Chris Butler On Bringing Innovation & Live-Action Energy To Medium Of Stop-Motion Animation Laika Studios/United Artists Releasing
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