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Kristin lepore biography

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Experience.Computer

Experience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.

Jay Springett leads director and animator Kirsten Lepore through a series of imaginative exercises. 

Then they discuss:

  • The process of creating animation 

  • The physicality of stop motion animation

  • The role of the director

  • The concepts of time and energy in film editing and more.

“Once it's done, I'm like, I can't look at it. Like, I need time. You know? Like, I need to be detached from this”

“My mind had a blueprint and I just followed it. I would sketch it out, get what I'm imagining right, and then stick to it. Then it's just about following that blueprint that's in my mind from the get-go”

“I enjoy animation maybe 10 to 15% of the time when I'm doing it. I like to dance sometimes when I'm animating and get into a really amazing state of flow”

Kirsten Lepore is an LA-based director and animator, and alumna of CalArts. She was the Animation Director on the A24 feature, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which was n

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Kirsten Lepore

American animator

Kirsten Lepore is an American animator known for her stop-motion short films, including Sweet Dreams (2008), Bottle (2011), and Move Mountain (2013). From 2014 to 2015, she worked on an episode of the American cartoon series Adventure Time entitled "Bad Jubies", serving as writer, storyboard artist, and director. The episode eventually aired on January 14, 2016 to critical acclaim.[1][2][3]

Education

Lepore was raised in South Brunswick, New Jersey.[4] In an interview with The A.V. Club, Lepore explained that, as a child, she was fascinated by the animation techniques used by both Disney and the Jim Henson Company.[5] Lepore attended South Brunswick High School,[4] where she began to earnestly explore art, and as a young adult, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied "experimental animation". Her undergraduate thesis was the short stop motion film entitled Sweet Dreams (2008).[5][6] Following

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Her films have taken top prizes at SXSW, Slamdance, Stuttgart Animation festival, Florida Film Fest, Arizona Film Fest, Vimeo Awards, the Annie Awards and many others. Her work has appeared as Google Doodles, on Yo Gabba Gabba, on MTV, Facebook, Nickelodeon and she’s worked with Whole Foods and Toyota. She has also directed an Emmy winning episode of Adventure Time. Yet, her Wikipedia page says she started freelancing “because studios weren’t calling her back”. It’s like that guy who didn’t sign the Beatles.

You are still very young but looking back to your childhood and teenage years, what did you read/watch/look at/listen to, and did anything particularly resonate and have a lasting effect on you choosing a creative profession?

Like most American kids of the 80’s, I grew up on Disney movies, sesame street, and then later Nickelodeon and MTV – all of which featured various styles of animation, graphics, and puppetry that captivated me from the start. The majority of my childhood was spent drawing, writing, sculpting with clay, and playing computer games, so I alwa

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