She Quit Ad Burnout to Make a Claymation Kids' Show — With AI

Laura Cortes shares her journey from more than fifteen years at the intersection of advertising, interactive media, and emerging tech to launching History Hacks, an irreverent AI-powered claymation series for kids. She recounts how burnout, motherhood, and a hunger for meaning led her to found Spoonful Studios, blending handcrafted stop-motion with generative tools and drawing on immersive work for Google, CERN, and the NFB to reimagine how history is told.