The Human Hand: Why Stop Motion Animation Endures
Room 207 | Ian Mackinnon | Bix Pix Entertainment-TUMBLE LEAF | Kirsten Lepore | David Braun | Ramin ZahedKnown for their work on Smiling Friends (David Braun), Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Corpse Bride (Ian Mackinnon), Tumble Leaf (Kelli Bixler) and Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (Kirsten Lepore), the panelists will have a candid discussion on all things stop motion animation, moderated by Ramin Zahed, author and editor-in-chief of Animation Magazine. For more than a century, stop motion has endured not because it resisted technology, but because it used technology in service of something timeless: the human hand. As AI and digital tools redefine animation, is there still a place for an art form created one frame at a time? Hear what our independent animators, who blend hand-crafted, stop-motion aesthetics with elevated storytelling, have to say and be part of the conversation.
