Folk tales, handcrafted animation aesthetics and period journeys
Ibai Abad
A Spanish stop-motion artist and director whose The Child of the Sea won a special mention at the 2026 Reply AI Film Festival.
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- 1 film
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- 1
- Festival awards
- 1
- Years
- 2026
- Last active
- 2 Nov 2026
Films
Why follow this filmmaker
Reply describes Ibai Abad as a Spanish stop-motion artist and director. He wrote and directed The Child of the Sea, a MotionField production that carries a stop-motion look across a journey through 17th-century Spain. His release notes frame the tools as a way to reach a scale he could not produce independently, while keeping writing, design, direction and editing as deliberate stages.
The film received a special mention at the 2026 Reply AI Film Festival. Other directors named Ibai Abad appear in film databases; this entry does not link them to him without a direct source. A broader filmography and social accounts have not been verified.