Even before Nike founder Phil Knight acquired the studio that would be renamed Laika in 2002, it was already a staple of the Oregon filmmaking landscape. Will…
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Portland is a perfect place to bring stop motion characters to life, according to animator and director Henry Selick. “You know, those long, gray, wet winters are perfect for staying inside," he told the Mercury. Though he directed several outstanding stop motion films at Walt Disney Studios—like the 1993 Nightmare Before Christmas and 1996 James and the Giant Peach—Selick speaks of Portland and the films he's worked on here with a special love. His latest.