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Independent animation

The Fabulous Adventures of Mystimation

by Emmett Redding • February 22, 2021 • 1 Comment

Little is known about Czech director Karel Zeman—his works are still largely unavailable in the West—yet his animation techniques combining stop motion, hand-drawn and cut-out animation with various optical special effects, dubbed ‘Mystimation’, are a stated influence by film directors…

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Independent animation

Hand Drawn and Non-Natural Colour in Films by Barbara Hammer and Sandra Lahire

by Vicky Smith • February 15, 2021 • 0 Comments

In this post, I will consider how independently produced animations have contributed to the development of this medium today through films by Sandra Lahire (1950-2001) and Barbara Hammer (1939-2019). During the 1980s, both worked with animation in its widest sense,…

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Exhibition review

The Lonesome Master: A Review of the “Ray Harryhausen: A Titan of Cinema” Exhibition

by P. M. Cicchetti • February 8, 2021 • 0 Comments

November in Edinburgh: if ever there was a season to nestle and perchance to (day)dream, this would be it. Outside the entrance of the National Gallery of Modern Art, standing in a socially-distanced line, I wait for my turn to…

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Acting and Performance, Animation and Stardom, Sound and Music

How voice makes a villain: Fiennes and the Moon King

by Reece Goodall • January 25, 2021 • 1 Comment

The film Kubo and the Two Strings (2017) marks Fiennes’ third animated appearance as a villain, and I think it is here that his animated star image is consolidated – Fiennes’ voice denotes concerns of class, and his characters belong…

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Acting and Performance, Animation and Stardom, Sound and Music

Accent, inflection and Lord Victor Quartermaine

by Reece Goodall • January 18, 2021 • 0 Comments

In this post, I want to move on from the simple evocation of a celebrity’s past roles to focus on the ‘vocal’ aspect of celebrity vocal stardom. Fiennes’ next animated villain, Lord Victor Quartermaine, would appear in 2005’s Wallace and…

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Acting and Performance, Animation and Stardom, Sound and Music

Contextualizing Rameses in the stardom of Ralph Fiennes

by Reece Goodall • January 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

It is certainly true that celebrity voice actors evoke their other roles through vocal performances and, by drawing on this wider intertext, a familiar voice helps to deepen our understanding of a character. My conception of celebrity vocal stardom necessarily…

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Re-Evaluating Celebrity Vocal Stardom Through the Animated Villains of Ralph Fiennes

by Reece Goodall • January 4, 2021 • 0 Comments

Voice performances are technically eligible for nomination in the acting categories at the Academy Awards, but they have never been recognised. The founding of the SOVAS Voice Art Awards in 2013 was designed to rectify this because, as its chief…

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Documentary

Virtual Animated Documentaries

by Nea Ehrlich • December 7, 2020 • 0 Comments

When I first began researching animated documentaries, over 10 years ago, I remember being asked at an art-related conference “but where do you find your case studies”? Indeed, at the time a challenging part of the research process was to…

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Documentary

On Biology and Natural History in “Fantasia” (1940)

by Colin Williamson • November 30, 2020 • 0 Comments

In 1955, Walt Disney Productions released A World Is Born, a 16mm short animated educational science film that visualized the natural history of Earth from the origins of cellular life to the extinction of the dinosaurs (see Figure 1). The…

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Animation and animals

Ducking the Issues: Anthropomorphism of Donald Duck

by Daryl Boman • November 16, 2020 • 0 Comments

Animals with human traits have populated the fables of Aesop and the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm to entertain and educate children and adults for hundreds of years. Therefore, is no great surprise that this aspect of the genre of…

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