Laika film studios announced today that it would spin off its advertising division, Laika/house, and concentrate entirely on its feature film business. The advertising division will continue to ...

The Book of Genesis contains two competing creation stories: There’s the one where an all-powerful deity conjures everything in six days, and the version where a more anthropomorphic god rolls up his ...

CORVALLIS -- Will Vinton, founder of Portland-based Vinton Studios, spoke to a near capacity crowd Saturday night at LaSells Stewart Center as keynote speaker of the da Vinci Days Film and Video ...

Portland, Oregon-based coffee crafter Stumptown Coffee partnered with a fellow hometown hero, the animation studio Laika, for a limited-edition cold brew honoring the 15th anniversary of the studio’s ...

LAIKA/house, the commercial division of Portland-based LAIKA (formerly Vinton Studios), has promoted two key staffers: Kirk Kelley and Jan Johnson. Director Kelley has been upped to creative director ...

From his early days working at Portland’s Will Vinton Studios to reaching the top of his profession by winning an Oscar for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” Mark Gustafson built a reputation as one ...

Hillsboro animation studio Laika said Thursday it has purchased the rights to adapt and film “Piranesi,” a 2020 fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke. Travis Knight, the studio’s CEO, plans to direct the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Phil Knight, whose Nike empire gives him an estimated worth of $7.9 billion, is bringing his muscle to showbiz, with ambitious plans for his Portland, Ore., animation studio to partner with a ...

This week, we’re talking all about Oregon’s award-winning animation scene. Just think of Coraline, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Will Vinton Studio’s California Raisins ad from 1986. OPB’s Oregon ...