The election kind of pushed it out of my mind, but I did see Laika's "Wildwood" this last week, and it was FANTASTIC. They've outdone themselves again on this one.

It's a pretty complicated story, but it doesn't feel rushed, and there are both very personal moments and epic-scale battles.

It's pretty clear that a range of techniques were actually used to animate this, ranging from stop-motion (which of course is their specialty) to fully-CG scenes (I'm guessing WETA had something to do with the epic battle scenes, since they're in the credits -- looks like "Massive" to me).

Honestly, some of it hit a little hard for a family movie. There is a non-trivial amount of "military" violence, even if it's not terribly graphic on screen.