“This community deserved to exist. It didn’t sit well with me, so I wanted to do whatever I could to try to make a place where these people could still have a home. Had [my father] not gone along with this fucking harebrain scheme … God knows where my life would’ve taken me.”

Travis Knight · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22

Knight describes his motivation to salvage what remained of Vinton Studios to create a sustainable home for stop-motion animators.