LAIKA Teams up with Bowie State University to Build First HBCU Stop-Motion Animation Studio LAIKA, the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning feature film animation studio best known for Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings and Coraline, is partnering with Bowie State University to build the nations first stop-motion animation studio at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). The partnership will enhance BSUs animation curriculum, with the goal of providing a career pathway for BSU students into the animation industry. LAIKAs donation will fund upgrades to Bowie States green screen studio to allow stop-motion animation production. The art form, one of cinemas oldest techniques, entails the incremental movement of objects, such as puppets, filmed 24X per second to create the illusion of movement.