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Animation and animals, Cats in animation

Cats and Animation: A Brief Hisstory

by Mihaela Mihailova • November 4, 2019 • 2 Comments

In memory of my friend Hannah Frank and her cat Ingeborg Two decades into the twenty-first century, animated fauna is thriving. A famous nonagenarian mouse with infinite spending power holds the American entertainment market ever more securely in its white-gloved…

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Conference report

An Undergraduate Perspective on the 2019 Animation and Public Engagement Symposium

by Julio Soto and Samuel Price • October 28, 2019 • 0 Comments

Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st September, Texas Tech University The 2019 Animation and Public Engagement Symposium (APES) held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock – thanks, among others, to the support of the Society for Animation Studies – brought together…

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Animation and Paratextuality, Animation Franchises and the Studio System

The Evolution of the Disney Princess Franchise Part II: The End of an Era?

by Kodi Maier • October 21, 2019 • 2 Comments

Thanks to its legacy of animated fairy tale films, Disney will always have princesses. But will it always have the Disney Princess franchise? In an attempt to come to grips with her feelings about the astonishingly lucrative line of merchandise,…

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Sound and Music

Remixing Fyodor D.: The Sound of National Character(s) in Russian-Language Bungo Stray Dogs AMVs

by Mihaela Mihailova • October 14, 2019 • 5 Comments

Anyone who has ever responded to a call for papers has, at one point or another, experienced the perverse pleasure of stubbornly latching onto a topic that was not mentioned therein and running with it. It was in that contrarian…

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Documentary, Sound and Music

Sound as an Indexical Element in Nonfiction Animation

by Sofía Poggi • October 7, 2019 • 0 Comments

Indexes, icons, and symbols. According to Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotic theory (1974), we can identify three basic types of signs: indexes, icons, and symbols. Indexes, such as photos, videos, and films, have a factual connection with their objects since they…

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Sound and Music

Synchronization and Synchresis: Avoiding ‘Mickey-Mousing’ in Sound Design

by Andrew Connor • September 30, 2019 • 1 Comment

When designing sound for animation, especially when you have some latitude in interpreting the visuals against your fully designed soundscape, there can be a tendency on trying to match up everything you see on screen with a direct sonic match.…

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Genesis of New Animated Works, Sound and Music

Crystal Clear: From Music to Animation

by Rosalie Loncin • September 23, 2019 • 0 Comments

Animation always had close links with sound and music. Synchronism provides a means of rich formal experimentations. It is particularly striking in the field of the music video where the progression of the music itself often determines the progression, the…

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Sound and Music

Steamboat Willie: Playing Now and Forever at Disneyland’s Main Street Cinema

by William McCarthy • September 16, 2019 • 0 Comments

Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized animated film that also introduced Mickey and Minnie Mouse, was first publicly presented on November 18, 1928, at Universal’s Colony Theater in New York City. Unlike all other iterations of Disneyland around the world,…

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Sound and Music

The Brilliant Disparity of UPA Soundtracks

by Lisa Scoggin • September 9, 2019 • 0 Comments

Most people think of each classic commercial American animation studios as having their own distinctive sonic style. Warner Brothers had the postmodern, action-driven sound developed by Carl Stalling. MGM had the classically trained Scott Bradley pumping out modern, occasionally atonal…

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Conference report

The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion Conference

by Laura-Beth Cowley • September 2, 2019 • 0 Comments

Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th June, Derek Jarman Lab The 2019 Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion conference held in London last June was well attended. The conference was supported by the Arts University Bournemouth, the Society for…

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