“The delight of animation comes of the experience of movement, and the art of animation is, above all, that of movement”, writes Thomas Lamarre (2013: 117). At the heart of our contemporary cinematographic understanding of animation are older meanings of…
Miscellaneous
Black & white, the most direct way to making the visible visible.
by Jean Detheux • July 15, 2016 • 9 Comments
If, as I believe, Art is a never ending search for the elusive real, there are many ways to go about that infinite task and, short of using a stick and making marks in the wet sand, using one’s fingers…
Representation
Ye Gods: Animating Gay Porn (Part 2)
by Adam de Beer • July 1, 2016 • 0 Comments
As argued previously in Shiver me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1) animated pornography, such as Pirate’s Booty (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2009) and Tales from the gods (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2010) allows a visual representation of sex that is arguably more real…
Representation
Shiver Me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1)
by Adam de Beer • June 15, 2016 • 1 Comment
Tom Hickman argues in The Sexual Century (1999) that sexuality in the 20th century has gone from “private passion [to]… public obsession”, and is what Susan Sontag refers to as “one of the demonic forces in human consciousness – pushing…
Representation
Candace Agonistes: Asperger’s Syndrome And The Real Star Of “Phineas And Ferb”
by David Perlmutter • June 9, 2016 • 2 Comments
Hi. My name is David, and I’m an Aspie. That is to say, I’m someone who is afflicted with Asperger’s Syndrome, a neurological condition first diagnosed by the man it is named for in the 1940s, but not fully accepted…
Collaboration and animation
Cuphead
by Kodi Maier • June 1, 2016 • 0 Comments
At this point, it’s clear that animation and video games go hand in hand. Even when a game attempts to dive as deeply into the Uncanny Valley as possible – as with Remedy Entertainment’s recent release, Quantum Break – it…
Collaboration and animation
Loop: A case study collaborating with scientists for Silent Signal
by Samantha Moore • May 18, 2016 • 1 Comment
Silent Signal is devised and produced by Animate Projects with scientist Bentley Crudgington, and is supported by a Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award and the Garfield Weston Foundation. The idea was to create a group of thematically interlinked but distinct pieces of animated…
Collaboration and animation
“Your World and My World are Connected”: Studio Ghibli as Ancestral Cinema
by Georgina Brown • May 6, 2016 • 0 Comments
In June of 1985, creative visionaries Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata joined forces with producer Toshio Suzuki to create what would later grow to be one of Japan’s most highly established and globally admired animation studios. This studio, Studio Ghibli,…
Genre and Animation
Beyond the “Children’s Film” Label: Animating Generic Hybridity in Contemporary Mainstream Animation
by Eve Benhamou • April 29, 2016 • 1 Comment
“A stunning big-screen comedy-adventure.”[i] This enthusiastic advertising description does not refer to a Marvel superhero film, or an action-adventure franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean, or not even to the highly successful Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015).…
Genre and Animation
Needles in Haystacks: Genre in Contemporary American Television Animation
by David Perlmutter • April 22, 2016 • 1 Comment
Trying to talk seriously about American television animation is a difficult thing to do. You can’t talk to people about these shows if they haven’t seen them, and usually, especially if they do not have children or a television set,…