Kate Raney began animating in college when given an assignment to make a 1 minute animated film. She immediately connected with the materiality and process of animating. Initially focusing on reinterpreting fairy tales with a feminist subtext, she turned to appropriating imagery from modern myths - the movies. As a graduate student at UW Milwaukee, she moved away from 16mm film and began working in digital formats. Her current interests involve combining live action and animation to investigate gender representation in the digital age.