Wildwood teaser reveals the practical scale behind LAIKA's next feature

Creative Bloq's report on the first Wildwood teaser records concrete production-scale details behind LAIKA's next stop-motion feature. The production reportedly used 136 sets and more than 230 practical puppets, with some sets large enough for animators to enter. One highlighted build is the giant golden eagle known as the General: two puppet versions were made, and its flexible outer construction carried roughly 9,000 individually crafted feathers. These details make the teaser useful as more than a release announcement, because they document how the film's large fantasy setting was translated into physical stages, puppet populations, and highly repetitive hand fabrication.

The report also describes Wildwood as a hybrid production that retains practical stop-motion as its visible foundation while using CG enhancement for scale, action, and movement that would be difficult to obtain entirely in camera. The teaser therefore offers a current case study in how a major studio expands the apparent size and fluidity of puppet animation without abandoning its tactile construction. The article gives an October 23, 2026 release date; that date and the reported production counts should still be checked against LAIKA's own final production notes before catalogue ingestion.