“When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.”

American former professional basketball player

Travis Knight is an American former professional basketball player. A 7-foot center, he played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association after coming out of the University of Connecticut, where he played for Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun. Knight is best known for his NBA career and for his time as a big man at Connecticut. His background places him in the late 20th and early 21st century game, with the college-to-pro path that shaped much of his career.