You can imagine the scene – perhaps you’re living it now – with the infant sat captivated by the shifting shapes moving on the screen and the parent behind them, busy with another task, not concentrating on the screen but…
Children’s Animation
RIP Saturday Morning: The Changing Face of Children’s Broadcasting
by Amy Ratelle • September 22, 2015 • 2 Comments
Like many other people of a certain (Gen X) age, tuning into the Saturday morning time slot was directly responsible for igniting my love for all things animated. It was with great dismay, then, that I read the news last…
Planes, trains and automobiles; anthropomorphized vehicles in children’s animation (but mum it’s educational!)
by Nichola Dobson • September 4, 2015 • 3 Comments
This is a big topic to put into a short blog post and I have no intention on covering the complexities of the creepiness of the CG Thomas the Tank Engine with his juvenile voice versus the original stop motion…