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Dark Horse: An Overview of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Horses (1937-2016)

by Rebecca Rose Stanton • May 6, 2019 • 1 Comment

Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter: WDAS) are both famous and infamous for their individualized anthropomorphic animal characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Simba, and Baloo. Unsurprisingly, dogs are depicted in more WDAS films than any other animal species. Yet, perhaps surprisingly,…

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Animation and animals

Homo Ridens and Animate Viverra

by Terry Lindvall • April 29, 2019 • 0 Comments

Felix the Cat silently chortled his “Ha Ha!” Mickey Mouse laughs (figure 1). Bugs Bunny snickers. Snoopy guffaws. In A Bug’s Life (1998, by John Lasseter), numerous insects laugh at their own jokes: “there’s a waiter in my soup.” When…

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Book Review

Between Myths

by Joseph Darlington • April 22, 2019 • 0 Comments

Review of Kayla Rae Whitaker. The Animators. London: Random House Trade, 2017. Animation often draws on literature. Disney had his fairy tales and every good anime starts life as a manga. Inspiration travels in the other direction far less often.…

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Early Animation

The Temporality of Seeing: Reconsidering the Origins of the Phenakistiscope

by Nicholas Miller • April 15, 2019 • 2 Comments

Media “archaeologies” often emphasize the technical similarities between nineteenth-century optical devices and the basic mechanism of film animation: both create the illusion of movement by deploying series images stroboscopically. The designation of such instruments as “pre-cinematic,” however, can be misleading.…

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Animated Suspense: A Quantitative Analysis of “Ice Age 3”

by Adrian Weibel • April 8, 2019 • 0 Comments

A few years ago I began an analysis of suspense and other narrative strategies in Blue Sky Studios’ Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009, by Carlos Saldanha), as a follow-up study to my research on suspense in Alfred…

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European Animation

10X10: A European Animation Project

by Jared Taylor • April 1, 2019 • 1 Comment

The purpose of this post is to describe 10X10, an ongoing project initiated at Edinburgh College of Art, that each year brings animators and composers from a range of European universities together in a virtualized collaborative process. Currently, this project…

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Book Review

Animation Reinvented: Play and Nostalgia Meet Pop Art and Consumerism

by Pamela O'Brien • March 25, 2019 • 1 Comment

Almost 24 years ago, in November 1995, audiences flocked to the movie theater to see a new kind of animated film: one not drawn by hand, but created entirely within a computer. While some may have gone due to the…

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European Animation, Sound and Music

‘La Seine and I’: Adapting an Animated French Musical for English-speaking Audiences

by Louise Milsom • March 18, 2019 • 3 Comments

The practice of dubbing over European productions, as with all dubbed foreign language productions, risks a potential disconnect between the spoken language and opposing cultural references within the diegetic world, ranging from instances of untranslated writing to a specific international…

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"National" Animation, European Animation

“Scroogin on a Greg”: The Absurd in Scottish Animated Comedy

by Nichola Dobson • March 11, 2019 • 3 Comments

The notion of the Scottish Animated comedy of the title is as unclear as the first part of the title. Is there such a genre? Is there a national identity inherent in a body of work?  If so, can it…

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European Animation

A Proposed Framework for Contemporary European Feature Animation: First Thoughts

by Vassilis Kroustallis • March 4, 2019 • 1 Comment

Let’s start with some numbers. 250 animated features were produced in Europe (36 countries) between 2010 and 2014, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory (the corresponding number during the 1989-1998 period: 46) [1]. 1 Cannes Jury Prize (for Marjane Satrapi’s…

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