Two – count ’em two – new mini-docs have been made available from Laika Studios that only whet your appetite for their latest, Kubo and The Two Strings.

Discover the myth of Kubo by watching this new featurette, dropping today, which includes commentary from director Travis Knight, actors Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey and incredible behind-the-scenes footage of the making of this stop-motion epic.

See the lineage of the movie’s villains as they come to life in the second all-new featurette, below.

Kubo’s quest begins nationwide August 19, 2016 from animation studio LAIKA and Focus Features.

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Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

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