Wildwood's scale: 136 handcrafted sets, 231 puppets -- the most LAIKA has ever built

Behind-the-scenes coverage tied to LAIKA's Wildwood trailer gives the production its first public scale numbers: 136 handcrafted miniature sets and 231 practical puppets across 54 hero characters, which both outlets report as the most puppets LAIKA has built for a single production. Director Travis Knight describes Wildwood as "the hardest thing we have ever done," attributing the film's long gestation to that scale of ambition rather than to any single new technique, while chief marketing and operations officer Dave Burke calls it the studio's "most ambitious film yet." Six-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel serves as cinematographer.

For the database this is a durable production-scale data point rather than a promotional beat: it gives a concrete, citable headcount for a tentpole 2026 stop-motion feature before the two trailer-cycle articles reporting it are superseded by the next wave of Wildwood press ahead of its October 23, 2026 release.