A pencil is technology, a paintbrush is technology, a 3D printer is a computer is technology. Technology is useful when you put it in the hands of people, when you put it in the hands of artists who can amplify their voice. It doesn’t know what it feels like.” “Wildwood” is a stop-motion fantasy feature about a young girl (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) who travels into a forbidden forest when her baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows.
It took 16 years to complete the film, Knight said. But it’s a funny thing because it’s a big fantasy story. It’s a big sweeping adventure story.
It’s a beautiful extravaganza. It’s an epic, but that’s not something that sustains you for 16 years. He continued, “At the heart of it, it has to be something that means something to you and that’s the thing I’m most proud of is that underneath it all, it is something that is really heartfelt, it’s beautiful, it’s emotional and that’s the thing I hope audiences take away from this.” Knight doesn’t believe that AI could have helped speed up the process — at least not if he wanted to maintain the highest quality.
Everything is going to be automated; everything is going to be easier. What I would say to that is that there is something special about the human touch. There is something beautiful about humanity.
And that’s one thing that stop motion represents. Stop-motion represents humanity at its finest creativity, emotion, care, devotion, time. Bassett talked about recording her work during COVID.
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