Mecki the Hedgehog is a cartoon character originating in the 19th century, based on the tale of The Hare and the Hedgehog, from the brothers Grimm’s famous fairy tale collection. The fable tells the story of a hedgehog who tricked…
Alternative/Forgotten Histories
The Forgotten History of Animation in Film Studies
by Victoria Walden • November 5, 2014 • 4 Comments
“Cinema and media studies in the early twenty-first century needs a better understanding of the relationship between two of the film’s most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts: ‘animation’ and ‘film theory’. As the increasing digital nature of cinema now forces…
Research in Progress
The Future is Bright…
by Aylish Wood • October 28, 2014 • 4 Comments
I’ve been researching software and animation. As part of that project, I recently thought it would be good to know more about where the algorithms that make up 3D animation software came from. We’re quite used to thinking about digital…
Miscellaneous
Some thoughts about the imagined and non-imagined animation communities
by Eliska Decka • October 21, 2014 • 1 Comment
It seems like that to become an independent animator isn’t as hard as to keep being one after one leaves the safety net of your animation department. During these past 2 years while conducting my PhD research about the creative…
Research in Progress
SOUND DESIGN: RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
by Kara Scott-James • October 13, 2014 • 2 Comments
1. Narrative Aesthetics – Sound Design in Story Development: A Case for Pre-AuralVis Recap – MFA (Production Research); work presented at SAS 2014 (Toronto) Despite an increasing awareness of sound design many filmmakers still neglect sound’s potentials, particularly within early-stage development. …
Research in Progress
Channelling Time for Over Time
by Birgitta Hosea • September 16, 2014 • 0 Comments
Building on her previous work on the concept of time, Over Time (overtimeart.org) is a practice-based research project curated by Anne Robinson (London Metropolitan University), culminating in an exhibition and series of performances in Greenwich during September and October 2014…
Research in Progress
Intersections: Dance, Animation, Ecology, and tranSTURM
by Rachel Walls • September 9, 2014 • 6 Comments
A few months back, I was invited to participate in Sydney-based art collective tranSTURM, working on a raft of abstract animation projects. The first project, Light_Space (2014) made an abstract analysis of movement in Olympic sport. Commissioned by Sydney Olympic…
Gender and Animation
Surviving The Animator’s Survival Kit: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
by Alison Reiko Loader • August 25, 2014 • 10 Comments
The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams will be recommended to countless students beginning animation classes in the next few weeks. Cited by Paul Wells in his SAS Toronto keynote in a shortlist of texts commonly found in professional studios,…
Gender and Animation
Hidden from view/ing?
by Nichola Dobson • August 18, 2014 • 0 Comments
There seems to have been a resurgence of discussion of all things feminist recently, from the online campaigns of #everydaysexism, the attempts to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practises[i], to the increasing voices of dissent among young female audiences, in…
Gender and Animation
To Miyazaki, with Gratitude
by Kodi Maier • August 18, 2014 • 4 Comments
The first time I saw Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away I was in BJ’s, a wholesale club store like Costco or Sam’s Club that my parents frequented for our weekly groceries. I never loved anime as much as some of my…