NPR Visits a Digital Animation Utopia
We have to be honest. Before Jon Kalish‘s report for NPR’s Weekend Edition, we were not familiar with Encyclopedia Pictura, a three-man digital animation operation headquartered in Central California.
The trio of Isaiah Saxon, Darin Rabinovitch, and Sean Hellfritsch have transformed ten acres in Aptos into an environmentally friendly, work-at-home paradise they call “Trout Gulch.” The land is located next to Saxon’s mom’s house:
“We’re building a 21st-century Hobbit village in which things are integrated into nature,” Saxon says, “but we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology and embracing the best of technology…”
Rabinovitch, a tall 33-year-old, lives in a small grass hut with a door that’s four feet tall (pictured).
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