Like many filmmaking practices outside Hollywood, Turkish cinema lacks a popular sci-fi genre. The main reasons for this are insufficient governmental or private funding and a competent labor force – all essential for producing the visual effects that lie at…
Figure 1. Render of Houdini scene featuring the Utah teapot which is available as an “off-the-shelf” object in most contemporary 3D software packages. 2024 Gina Moore. Found in various industries including film, advertising, games, and visualisation, computer graphics (CG) are…
In his report from the 1964 Annecy Festival, the third edition of the oldest international animation festival, Derek Hill lamented the poor global selection but nevertheless concluded that the governments of Canada and Yugoslavia remained “the two most enlightened cartoon…
Context Virtual Production (VP) is reshaping creative industries and education [1] and is often tied to the blending of digital and physical worlds on a single stage [2]. For educational institutions training future film practitioners, integrating VP into curriculums is…
Animation, edited by Scott Curtis, is a remarkable addition to the Behind the Silver Screen series of film books. This series promises to provide a history of filmmaking rather than merely a history of films, and Animation fulfills this promise…
This contribution is the second post of a two-part series on the creative production of Wing Yan Kwan and Lam Le’s Coffin Room (2024). Confined in a small apartment, cramped with a tiny bunk bed, old furniture, canned foods, and…
This contribution is the first post of a two-part series on the creative production of Wing Yan Kwan and Lam Le’s Coffin Room (2024). The methods that creators use to communicate complex social issues evolve together with the development of…
This article aims to theorise the metamorphosis of analogue media into digital media, a process enacted by digital media itself. The analysis will start by using the YouTube video “This is DVD (1998-1999) Advert” as an emblem of digital media’s…
In his 1986 analysis of Foucault, philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1988) asks what the struggle for modern subjectivity might look like given that the subject must resist, on the one hand, the impulse to individualize themselves by exerting power over others…
The main characters in Isao Takahata’s 1994 film Pom Poko are tanuki, an animal attributed with shapeshifting powers in Japanese folklore. Their powers form part of an ethos of constant metamorphosis pervading Pom Poko, enabling Takahata to address his socio-political…
