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Animation and Learning

Animation’s Authentic Voice

by Benjamin Hall • September 30, 2025 • 0 Comments

Figure 1. The Animated Tea-towel by St Paul’s Animation Club (2024) I once had a rather memorable conversation with a colleague at a wrap party for a production I had worked on. This took place some years ago now, though…

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Animation and Learning

Hands-On Learning: Why Touch Still Matters in Animation

by Grace Brennan • September 23, 2025 • 0 Comments

Ross Hog

Animation education today often begins not with pencils or paper, but with software. Many students arrive expecting that animation should be produced seamlessly by machine, efficient, polished, and screen-ready from the start. Manuals like Richard Williams’ The Animator’s Survival Kit…

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Standalone Posts

Doom! Invader Zim as Rasquache: Its Impact On Animation and Latinx Aesthetics

by Luke Hernandez • September 2, 2025 • 0 Comments

Doom! Zim The Invader

In 2001 Nickelodeon began airing a peculiar yet profoundly intriguing animated show that caught audiences off-guard: Invader Zim (2001) created by Jhonen Vasquez. This dark animated comedy pushed the limits of how horror can be visualized in children’s programming, all…

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Book Review

Review of Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation

by Damian Mandzunowski • August 19, 2025 • 0 Comments

two Asian cartoon characters standing next to a river

Daisy Yan Du, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019: 276 pp.: ISBN 978 0 8248 7210 6, $90.00 (hbk); $30.00 (pbk). In Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s, Daisy Yan…

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Animating Menstrual Pain through Metaphors and Metamorphosis

by Crystal Tai • August 7, 2025 • 0 Comments

The sensation of pain is invisible (Munday et al., 2020). It is private, shifting, and impossible to pin down. So, how do we communicate something so visceral and elusive? The answer seems to lie in metaphor. According to Conceptual Metaphor…

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Flow (2024)

Video games strategies in the animation feature Flow (2024)

by Maria Pagès • July 22, 2025 • 0 Comments

Following the great success of the Latvian animated feature Flow (Zilbalodis, 2024), which brought home the Oscar statues for the first time in the nation’s and the Oscar’s history, this text explores the intuition that the success could relate to…

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Flow (2024)

Anthropomorphism as a narrative mode in Flow (2024)

by Samantha Baugus • July 8, 2025 • 1 Comment

Flow (Zilbalodis, 2024)is striking for its lack of spoken dialogue; the filmmakers respected the lived reality of the nonhuman creatures by not imposing on them anthropocentric ideas of spoken narrative. Nonetheless, the story is communicated beautifully, evocatively, and intelligibly to…

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To the Moon on a Whim in A Grand Day Out (1989)

by Christian Wilken • June 17, 2025 • 0 Comments

This article examines the first installment in Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit series A Grand Day Out (1989) through the lenses of the oneiric and the Dionysian. While scholarship on Aardman Animations tends to emphasize its stop-motion materiality and British eccentricity, less attention has…

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Animation and Surrealism

A Closer Look at “In the Shadow of the Cypress”

by Dawn Lam • June 3, 2025 • 0 Comments

“In the Shadow of the Cypress” is a 2023 Iranian animated short by Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, making history by claiming…

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Animation and Surrealism

Visualizing Trauma Memory Through Surreal Techniques

by Yixin Sun • May 20, 2025 • 0 Comments

Experimental animation, through its unconventional narratives, offers a compelling medium for expressing surreal feelings, personal philosophies, spiritual concerns, and abstract psychological trauma. Specifically, the unstable psychological state of the traumatized individual can be seen as placing their identity in a…

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