It didn't seem like that's a viable career path. I would make music, I would write stories, and so being an artist has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.īut, you know, I was also a practical kid. Sketchbook after sketchbook that I would fill up with my own drawings and comics and everything like that. But yeah, I do think that I was - when I think back to my childhood, I was always interested in art. TK: That's interesting! I never made that connection, but maybe there is something there. LYT: Is that where the name Laika comes from? I mean, I think that - what do I want to be? I want to be an astronaut! That was a lifelong dream when I was a little kid. Travis Knight: Well, I think when you're a kid, you have no idea what you want to be.
Was your dream when younger to be an artist, rather than a CEO? Thompson: Let me ask about the business side of things. I sat down with Knight at the Kubo press day for a wide-ranging interview that touches on his journey from intern to CEO, what it's like to hold the creative power while balancing the books, and what he learned from his father. There's a lot of Knight in the young protagonist Kubo, who brings inanimate objects to life, but there's just as much in his protective mother who gives him the gift of magic - Knight credits his own children with fueling the desire to make animated features worthy of them. His directorial debut, Kubo and the Two Strings, is very much about family underneath all the cool samurai trappings - what it's like to have a father with a larger-than-life reputation and particular set of skills, how it feels to ache for lost loved ones and still soldier on, and the lengths parents will go to to strengthen their children. It's one that he seems to have been born to play, but took the very long way around before finally stepping into. Now, as head of Laika animation, formed a decade ago out of the remnants of the former Will Vinton studios where he began as an intern, he's shepherded the development of three acclaimed features - Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls - before finally stepping into the role of director himself.
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