If, as I believe, Art is a never ending search for the elusive real, there are many ways to go about that infinite task and, short of using a stick and making marks in the wet sand, using one’s fingers…
Miscellaneous
APES 2015
by Chris Pallant • December 2, 2015 • 0 Comments
Following the success of the first ‘Animation and Public Engagement Symposium’ (APES), which ran in association with the Bradford Animation Festival in 2014, APES 2015 touched down at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle for this year’s installment. Coordinated by Society…
Report: #BrickBowl – 36hr Animation Project
by Chris Pallant • February 3, 2015 • 0 Comments
So the Super Bowl happened again (I’m a Brit), and beyond the field-based drama, which lasted right to the end of the game this time round, with a spectacularly improbable catch setting up a dramatic final few seconds, the main…
Some thoughts about the imagined and non-imagined animation communities
by Eliska Decka • October 21, 2014 • 1 Comment
It seems like that to become an independent animator isn’t as hard as to keep being one after one leaves the safety net of your animation department. During these past 2 years while conducting my PhD research about the creative…
Why MLP (FIM)?
by Ewan Kirkland • May 5, 2014 • 0 Comments
The new My Little Pony show, subtitled ‘Friendship is Magic’, follows in the footsteps of recent reimagined franchises, from superhero comics, to digital game heroines, to science fiction and action television. While understandably rejecting the ‘dark’ reboot route, a distinct…