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Ari Chand, Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, Adelaide University ; University of Newcastle

In an age of AI, Wildwood is a film that reminds us human creativity is irreplaceable

Laika

Animation has long had the unique ability to transport us to other worlds. But stop motion takes this further, with a level of skill and intentionality that provides a perfect counter to the droning hum of AI slop infecting our feeds.

Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion offering is Wildwood, a project that took an extraordinary 16 years to complete. That’s a long time, even by stop-motion standards (most of the studio’s stop-motion films took between three and six years to develop).

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