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Max Porter

Max Porter

Oscar-nominated stop-motion animator, half of the directing duo Tiny Inventions with wife Ru Kuwahata ("Negative Space"), and Assistant Professor at RISD.

Sep 24, 2026

27:11
Is that something that you had always thought you would want to do? How did you get into that? And how do you see that kind of impacting the way that you approach your own studio practices? Yeah.
27:23
Yeah, so we've both taught for years, started out as part-time teachers.
27:29
I shifted around 2011, 2012 to full-time teaching.
27:36
And to answer your question, for me personally, it was always something that I was interested in doing.
27:42
I think that the sort of notion of going into a classroom and sort of thinking about animation in a different way was always really exciting to me.
27:53
And I felt like I got a lot of energy from students.
27:57
I was able to see like what I did in a different light by just sort of trying to explain it, like trying to communicate.

26 MINS LATER

53:39
And so I just wonder if you wanted to touch on that as well.

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