Since last year , Laika’s been keeping its latest movie Wildwood under wraps and only letting out tiny scraps of information. With ParaNorman briefly back in theaters this weekend, the stop-motion studio snuck in some more footage from the film, which it promises will be “their most ambitious cinematic journey yet.”

After an intro building up Laika’s history up to this point, the video shows off concept art from the film depicting its majestic aerial views of Portland and renders of the General, an eagle with “unshakeable grace” voiced by Angela Bassett. As the narrator explains, creating the General required models “inspired by nature” to create her movements, followed by 9,000 individual feathers going onto a pair of special puppets—one puppet for flight scenes, and th

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