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Visual Metamorphosis in Animation

Visual metamorphoses and environmental thought in contemporary animation

by Virág Vécsey • November 19, 2024 • 0 Comments

The universal but ever-changing relationship between humans and non-human nature is constantly interrogated through the language of animation. It is enabled precisely by animation’s distinct formal and aesthetic properties, such as plasmaticness, the illusion of life, anthropomorphosis and metamorphosis. These…

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Visual Metamorphosis in Animation

Corrupting the Cartoon: How Eisenstein’s Plasmatic Can Be Used For Evil

by Holland Kerr • November 13, 2024 • 0 Comments

Unfortunately, legitimately unsettling cartoon horrors seem to be rare. Semiotically abstracted from reality as they are, flat 2D images can in theory create an intellectual conceptualization of something scary. But they frequently cannot evoke the same immediate visceral experience that…

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Visual Metamorphosis in Animation

What if Gregor Samsa awakes in Bogotá? A collaborative work on an ever-transforming story

by Camilo Cogua and Ricardo Arce • November 5, 2024 • 0 Comments

As 25 animators awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, they found themselves animating in their beds a gigantic insect. In 2015, to celebrate the first century of Kafka´s Metamorphosis (1915), a group of Latin-American animators started creating an Exquisite Corpse,…

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Dance and Animation

Animation Ceremony: Bringing the Dancing Body to Life

by Hong Huo • October 29, 2024 • 0 Comments

To dance is to be free. To animate is to breath. The Latin root for animation, anima, is to breath in and bring to life[1]. The animator’s goal is to bring their imagined characters to life through the creation of…

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Dance and Animation

Shake Your Bones: The Shocking Image of Dancing Skeletons

by Joe Evans • October 22, 2024 • 0 Comments

In the darkness, a skeleton emerges on the screen and then jolts into a series of poses, lifting a leg, arms thrown out to one side, squatting, and popping off its head in both bony hands. The skeleton is dancing.…

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Dance and Animation

The Dance Of Pixilation

by Vicky Smith • October 15, 2024 • 0 Comments

Teeth by Vicky Smith

I will consider pixilation as a form of dance in which the movements that are produced are wholly specific to animation, thereby making the study of this method fruitful for Animation Studies. In pixilation, single film frames are synchronised with…

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Dance and Animation

The Graphic Choreography of Jules Engel

by Tim Ridlen • October 9, 2024 • 0 Comments

The artist, animator, and educator Jules Engel is perhaps best known for his work as an Art Director at the beloved United Productions of America (UPA), or maybe later for his role as the first director of the Experimental Animation…

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Dance and Animation

Fleischer’s use of Dance Sequences in Depicting Three Dimensions

by William J. Lorenzo • October 1, 2024 • 0 Comments

Dance sequences appear in a significant amount of Fleischer Studios cartoons throughout the 1920s and 1930s. These sequences presented the audience with an aesthetic sense of realism and an increased illusion of a third dimension, even though Fleischer’s cartoons were…

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The Fleeting Nature of Joy in Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

by Christian Wilken • September 24, 2024 • 1 Comment

Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) stands as the final masterpiece of one of Studio Ghibli’s founding fathers. Expanding upon the historic Japanese fairy tale Taketori Monogatari, it offers a poignant reflection on the impermanence of joy…

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A Place To Graze My Files

by Sally Pearce • September 20, 2024 • 0 Comments

Accountability and responsibility must be thought of in terms of what matters and what is excluded from mattering. (Barad, 2007: 220) This is a ghost story about a poltergeist that haunted me through the winter of 2023-2024 on my Vimeo…

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