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!!The animation studio
* AwardSnub: The studio averages one Oscar nomination per film, but has yet to win anything.
* BrokenBase: Their use of 3D printing to create their puppets. While nobody will deny their quality, there are plenty of purists who dismiss it as being inauthentic, as it's still allowing the computer to influence the most traditional of animation techniques.
* CultClassic: With the exception of their successful films ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' (and even they are far enough from mainstream to count), every movie they have made since then has a solid audience of StopMotion-fans.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects. Basically, the more movies they make, the more likely the audience is to think that they're watching a CGI-animated movie instead of stop-motion.

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* AwardSnub: The
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* BrokenBase: Their use of 3D printing to create their puppets. While nobody will deny their quality, there are plenty of purists who dismiss
unless it as being inauthentic, as it's still allowing the computer to influence the most traditional of animation techniques.
* CultClassic: With the exception of their successful films ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' (and even they are far enough from mainstream to count), every movie they have made since then has a solid audience of StopMotion-fans.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects. Basically, the more movies they make, the more likely the audience is to think
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!!The comic book
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The panels of ''Sputnik 2'' taking off are visually stunning, capturing the wonder of space flight.
* JerkassWoobie: Mikhail is a mean, short-tempered bully, but it's pretty clear that his abusive father is a large part of the way he is, and his anger issues have made him TheFriendNobodyLikes among the other boys. Seeing his friends ditch him after he loses his temper at them is more depressing than satisfying. When Liliana scolds him for treating Kudryavka badly, he exclaims, "No one loves me! Why should I love the dog?"
* TheWoobie:
** Kudryavka/Laika, a friendly dog who just wants to be loved but faces all kinds of abuse and trauma throughout her life. She is given to a mean boy who never wanted her in the first place, is thrown out and has to live as a street dog, and her friend is killed by a dogcatcher. Finally she is sent on a suicide mission aboard a satellite into space and dies a slow, painful death from overheating all alone in a tiny capsule, all because the leader of the Soviet Union demanded that the project be finished in less than a month.
** Yelena is the dog trainer and caretaker for the Soviet space program. She loves the dogs and takes good care of them, but can't do anything to stop them from being sent on dangerous space missions in which they might die. After Laika, her favorite dog, dies aboard ''Sputnik 2'', she ends up quitting the space program because she can't bear to be involved with sending the dogs to their potential deaths anymore.
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* CultClassic: With the exception of their successful films ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' (and even they are far enough from mainstream to count), every movie they have made since then has a solid audience of StopMotion-fans.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects. Basically, the more movies they make, the more likely the audience is to think that they're watching a CGI-animated movie instead of stop-motion.

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects. Basically, the more movies they make, the more likely the audience is to think that they're watching a CGI-animated movie instead of stop-motion.
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* AwardSnub: The studio averages one Oscar nomination per film, but have yet to win anything.

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* AwardSnub: The studio averages one Oscar nomination per film, but have has yet to win anything.
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* AwardSnub: The studio averages one Oscar nomination per film, but have yet to win anything.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects.

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects. Basically, the more movies they make, the more likely the audience is to think that they're watching a CGI-animated movie instead of stop-motion.
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* BrokenBase: Their use of 3D printing to create their puppets. While nobody will deny their quality, there are plenty of purists who dismiss it as being inauthentic, as it's still allowing the computer to influence the most traditional of animation techniques.

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* BaseBreaker:
** The studio's use of 3D printing to create their puppets has been met with scorn from purists. Travis Knight defended this by saying that he wanted their films to be progressive, not purist.
** The studio getting backing from Nike, whose CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects.

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* BaseBreaker:
** The studio's use of 3D printing to create their puppets has been met with scorn from purists. Travis Knight defended this by saying that he wanted their films to be progressive, not purist.
** The studio getting backing from Nike, whose CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects.effects.
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* BaseBreaker: The studio's use of 3D printing to create their puppets has been met with scorn from purists. Travis Knight defended this by saying that he wanted their films to be progressive, not purist.
** The studio getting backing from Nike, who's CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.

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The studio's use of 3D printing to create their puppets has been met with scorn from purists. Travis Knight defended this by saying that he wanted their films to be progressive, not purist.
** The studio getting backing from Nike, who's whose CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Travis Knight's announcement that Lakia would be doing a hand-drawn animated film.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Travis Knight's announcement that Lakia would be doing a hand-drawn animated film.
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** The studio getting backing from Niki, who's CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.

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** The studio getting backing from Niki, Nike, who's CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO Travis Knight, has led to some accusing Knight of [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]] instead of earning his studio's success.
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** The fact that most of the company's money comes from Knight's father, who is the CEO of Nike, has led to some accusing the studio of getting lucky by [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]].

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** The fact that most of the company's money comes studio getting backing from Knight's father, who is Niki, who's CEO also happens to be the father of Laika CEO of Nike, Travis Knight, has led to some accusing the studio Knight of getting lucky by [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]].money]] instead of earning his studio's success.
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* BaseBreaker: The studio's use of 3D printing to create their puppets has been met with scorn from purists. Travis Knight defended this by saying that he wanted their films to be progressive, not purist.
** The fact that most of the company's money comes from Knight's father, who is the CEO of Nike, has led to some accusing the studio of getting lucky by [[{{Nepotism}} playing with daddy's money]].
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While primarily known for stop-motion, their films can more likely be called "mixed media" for their extensive use of hand-drawn and CGI effects. Even with the stop motion stuff, they've been known to use 3D printing to create some truly incredible-looking puppets and effects.

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