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Behind the scenes of Kubo and the Two Strings - BBC Click

Director Travis Knight talks to BBC Click about making Kubo and the Two Strings, and specifically about where hand-animated stop motion stops and digital assistance begins. Useful for the argument it makes about which parts of the craft are worth keeping analogue.

BBC Click · 7 min · Intermediate · ANI · Animation · 2017

What you take away

The interesting question in modern stop motion is not what the computer can replace, but what is worth refusing to let it replace.

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