Making Animation 2025 looks to independent animation for inspiration in expression, craft, and storytelling that stay close to observation, imagination and the touch of the hand. In today’s fast-moving visual culture where cinema, streaming and social media increasingly converge, the symposium asks what keeps stories meaningful, and which skills and sensibilities matter as habits and technologies change.
These questions guide a focus on solo and small-team practices valued for self-expression, craft and reflective storytelling. Keynote speaker Yamamura Koji treats animation as giving shape to “invisible movements of light beyond reality,” favouring imagination and “thinking with the hands” over copying and algorithmic styling.
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