Last year at about this time (which is last minute by most measures) I was asked to Chair the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery. Having successfully Chaired and organized the Educators Programme at SIGGRAPH Asia in 2008, the inaugural launch of…
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Animated Events – Experiences in ‘Boundary Crossings’
by Mike Nixon • November 18, 2013 • 0 Comments
I am a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts student from Quay School of Arts in a small town called Wanganui about 2 hours from Wellington in New Zealand. I learned animation only the year before last, doing both stop motion…
The Mechanical Mouse – The Manufacturing Systems of Animation
by Daryl Boman • November 11, 2013 • 0 Comments
The subject of technology in animation would not be complete without the inclusion of the innovations of the systems that allowed the art form to thrive in a commercial fashion. Much has been made of the artists and to a…
Protean Media: One Animator’s Perspective
by Ruth Hayes • November 4, 2013 • 3 Comments
In “The Transforming Image: the Roots of Animation in Metamorphosis and Motion”, Tom Gunning analyzes two optical devices, the “blow book” and the flipbook, to investigate the “eternally protean nature of the moving image” and the relationship between animation and…