Animation

This week, we're talking about how Oregon creators have established the state as a reigning animation powerhouse that's influencing the art form's legacy and future.

We talk with Georgina Hayns, a Portland-based puppet maker about her career in stop-motion animation and why Portland has become a hub for this particular analog style of filmmaking.

This week on "State of Wonder," we look into the madness already surrounding August's eclipse, Oregon's a dark revamp of the Flintstones, and an even darker new horror film fest at Timberline Lodge.

Some of Oregon's top animators talk about the films that inform their creations.

We talk about some of the big stories of the week with our news roundtable, and listen back to a conversation with two of the people behind the incredible animation of "Kubo and the Two Strings."

Rose Bond calls herself an animator and media artist and says she includes “a lot of social practice, a lot of public involvement” in every piece she creates.

Joan Gratz has worked in Portland’s animation scene since its earliest days.

In a few short months, two Portland animators' film went from being rejected by the Northwest Film Festival to winning the Oscar for best short animated film, kicking off Oregon's animation scene in the process.

At LAIKA Animation Studio, in Hillsboro, Oregon, they’ve pioneered a new way to change facial expressions with 3-D printing.

The engine of gentrification fueled by Portland’s recent transplants was starting to hum by the time Jerold Howard returned. That's inspired his latest film.