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

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

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…

Read complete article

~	Why Snowy Hydro’s $25 billion cost blowout is a warning sign for other megaprojects

~	Independent journalism under siege in Georgia

~	Hokusai’s Great Wave is one of 46 prints of Mount Fuji – seeing them together changes everything

~	Indian Gen Z ‘cockroach’ protesters aim to upend assumptions about democracy – and populism – in Modi’s India

~	Women who changed science missing from GCSE and A-level courses – new study

~	The psychology that can lead investors to make bad financial decisions

~	When climate data is transformed into visuals some people and places get overlooked

~	Autumn wreaths and ‘doorscaping’: why we need more life in our front gardens

~	From elite spies to ‘gig-economy’ operatives: the changing face of Russian sabotage

~	How long until wearable brain-computer interfaces become mainstream?