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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Gender and Animation

Effeminate Ponies?

by Claire Burdfield • August 11, 2014 • 0 Comments

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010- ) is one of the most discussed children’s cartoon programmes of the 21st century, receiving academic interest (for example, the “My Little Pony: A Transcultural Phenomenon” research conference at University of Brighton in…

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Gender and Animation

Disney Princesses…What harm can they do?

by Bella Honess Roe • August 4, 2014 • 9 Comments

When I taught my module on the History and Theory of Animation to my final year undergrads at the University of Surrey last semester I was really looking forward to the week on representation of gender. I’ve taught this class…

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"National" Animation

Not One for Rumours

by Anitha Balachandran • June 23, 2014 • 1 Comment

The Films Division was created in 1948, the year after India’s independence. Imbued with a new discourse of official nationalism, it was to reflect the shifting ideologies of the emergent nation state. Describing the performative pedagogical functions of nationalism, historians…

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"National" Animation

Tracing the Heart of Thai Animation’s National Characteristics

by Millie Young • June 2, 2014 • 5 Comments

The Thai industry is still relatively new, having had a slow staggered start in the 1940’s, and a flourish of a feature in 1979, the industry only really started in earnest early this century. This post is a precursor to…

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"National" Animation

Rebuilding the Nation Through Iraqi National Animation

by Amber Shields • May 26, 2014 • 2 Comments

Embarking on an all-Iraqi animation project within a country still recovering from the last few decades of upheaval presents particular problems and possibilities. Completing the short 3D animation Baghdad Night (2013), Iraqi/German artist Furat al-Jamil and her team were confronted…

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"National" Animation

Animators in Exile

by Lauren Carr • May 19, 2014 • 2 Comments

Are animators in exile? Yes, as well as all the other positions that entail production for feature animation. August 2000 was my entry in the industry, the tail end of in-house traditional feature animation in California. Los Angeles had been…

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