## Ester Pazur on being a 'pessimist', the power of stop-motion and why handmade art still matters After losing commissions to AI, the stop-motion animator started posting her hand-drawn work online and found a community of like-minded people instead. "I see myself as a pretty pessimistic person, which is probably why I'm drawn to creating things that have a sense of innocence and naivety," says Ester Pazur. It's a telling line from an animator whose work – which is filled with birds scattering across storm clouds, a fox curled in tall grass, a horse lifted straight off a carpet pattern and…