Travis Knight describes how Wildwood's long production overlapped with Masters of the Universe

Travis Knight says Wildwood has been in development for sixteen years and was still being completed while he promoted the live-action Masters of the Universe. He frames the overlap as the result of very different production tracks rather than interchangeable workflows: stop-motion advances through prolonged development and incremental frame-by-frame production, while the live-action project moved on its own schedule. The account gives useful production context for why two Knight-directed films could arrive within months of one another despite both requiring years of work.

Knight also says the two productions informed one another creatively and shared members of his wider filmmaking team. For the stop-motion record, the durable point is not simply that Wildwood is a long-gestating LAIKA feature, but that its final phase was being managed alongside a large live-action production by the same director. This makes the interview a compact source on contemporary cross-medium directing, long-horizon stop-motion development, and the organisational continuity between Knight's live-action and animation work.