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Documentary

This Is Your Life, Donald Duck and the Early Mockumentary

by Cristina Formenti • November 7, 2016 • 0 Comments

Undeniably, the most popular way of intersecting animation and documentary is that of using animation to recount a factual occurrence. Yet, this is not the only possible manner in which they can combine. Another way of crossing them over consists in…

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Dialoguing on the Refusal of the Indexical (Part 2)

by Kelly Sears • October 31, 2016 • 0 Comments

Featured in this interview is Tara Knight’s animated, episodic, documentary series of short films, Mikumentary, about the singing, dancing, and collaboratively-created hologram Hatsune Miku. Through fragmented storytelling and animation that responds to Miku as a reconfigurable subject, Knight creates a modular…

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Documentary

Dialoguing on the Refusal of the Indexical (Part 1)

by Tara Knight • October 24, 2016 • 0 Comments

To many “animated documentary” sounds like an oxymoron: the genre inherently refuses indexical understandings of “the real” as purported, and highly debated, within photographic documentary practices. Similarly, it is accepted that historical, archival, or found footage imagery may stand in…

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Animating Autism

by Ruth Richards • October 17, 2016 • 4 Comments

In 2015, Griffith Film School’s LiveLab collaborated with Gold Coast Health and Sentis to produce an animated short on autism. Released online in 2016, Ky’s Story – Living with Autism aims to raise awareness about autism through the story of Ky…

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Ethics, Aesthetics and Memory: Animation in 30 años de oscuridad

by Abigail Loxham • October 13, 2016 • 0 Comments

Spain is suffering from a crisis of memory and, although there is little consensus as to whether this crisis is one of too much remembrance or too little, what cannot be avoided is the prevalence of the topic in screen…

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He Named Me Malala: A Producer’s Tale

by Irene Kotlarz • October 10, 2016 • 1 Comment

Producing animation for a live action documentary involves many practical and logistical challenges. Put plainly, live action documentary filmmakers don’t always understand how animation works, and vice versa, and the production methods are vastly different. In this post I will…

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Documentary

Animated Interjections

by Bella Honess Roe • October 3, 2016 • 0 Comments

I’m currently pondering the idea of animated ‘interjections’ in otherwise live action documentaries. I first started thinking about animated interjections a long time ago, probably when I was doing my PhD research around 2008, but definitely when I was working…

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Movement

Animation: Illusion of Movement, Recreation of Difference

by Oslavi Linares • September 26, 2016 • 5 Comments

Animation can represent change, even when this is invisible. Moreover, even deprived of the dimension of time, animation can recreate/represent variance and difference. Difference and variance is at the crux of the creation of animation’s illusion. Norman McLaren (in Sifianos…

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Movement

Illusion of Motion: Music and Animation

by Sarah Rundell • September 19, 2016 • 3 Comments

When we listen to music there comes a distinct experience of the passing of time. As the music changes, develops and grows, certain ‘events’ in the sound mark out a subjective feeling of time. Our awareness of following this passage…

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Movement

Exploring the Links between Chronophotography, Movement and Animation

by Bronwyn Horne • September 12, 2016 • 1 Comment

It can be argued that the primary emphasis of the animation process is on observation of movement. As animators, we are continually studying motion in order to understand the way things naturally move and interact. Motion can be considered the…

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