Kubo and the two strings

It is an animated production in third dimension, premiered in the year 2016, created under the technique "stop motion" which implies photographing the movements of an object in a successive of images to reproduce a scene in movement. For Kubo's performance, hand-scaled articulated figures were used. It is a craft that requires time and patience, as we can see in this example gif, it took several days to record a millisecond of action, this is evidenced in the clothing changes of the develope.

The film deals with an Asian family story, set in a magical - mythological world, Kubo (voice of Art Parkinson) is an eleven year old boy wearing a monocle patch because he lost one of his eyes when he was a baby, he cares for his mother blind and make a living by telling stories in a town in Japan. His mother (voice of Charlize Theron) has given him clear instructions that he can not be away from home when night falls because his grandfather "moon king" would come to steal his other eye, as he had long ago.

One day while in the village, he stayed until the night, his witches aunts of the night appeared immediately to take him to the kingdom of the night sky with his fearsome grandfather, at that moment his mother arrives to save him, giving his life in a fight with his sisters With his last breath his mother makes him fly to a magical world, where he will undertake a crusade to find the armor of his father who was a samurai who died fighting to defend his wife and son. Following in the footsteps of his father faces his grandfather the immortal "moon king".

She was nominated for two Oscars in the categories Best Visual Effects and Best Animated Film, I recommend it a lot, it is a fascinating film, with beautiful animations, a good picture of old and dark atmosphere. It has messages of forgiveness, love and family union with scenes of comedy and action, as you see is quite complete, a jewel that deserves to be seen.