A couple of weeks ago, I responded to an excellent post by Caroline Ruddell in which she asks ‘what of animation theory?’ I suggested that animation studies hasn’t cohered around any central questions of enquiry in the way Film Studies…
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The Crisis in Animation Studies
by Lauren Carr • February 17, 2014 • 4 Comments
Dig deep into the past and try remembering when family households were able to function without the Internet. Society had more patience before affordable technology was possible. Remember sending a letter to grandma and waiting weeks for a response? Or…
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James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and “Visual Karaoke.”
by Jean Detheux • February 12, 2014 • 1 Comment
More and more often, I see digital images appear in various forums focusing on digital art, images that, to me, are to Art what karaoke is to Music. Simple as that Why? Because, in the Art that I “know” and…
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What of animation and (T)theory
by Caroline Ruddell • February 3, 2014 • 5 Comments
In 1996 Bordwell and Carroll introduced their book entitled Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies in the following way: ‘Our title risks misleading you. Is this a book about the end of film theory? No. It’s about the end of Theory,…
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Watching Animation – Xmas special
by Nichola Dobson • December 20, 2013 • 1 Comment
For the last post of the year, some xmas themed animation….Happy New Year everyone. A Charlie Brown Christmas http://www.hulu.com/watch/198677 Bob and Margaret – A Very Fishy Christmas, parts I and II and Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs Twas the Night…
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Sand animation: From analog to digital.
by Corrie Francis Parks • December 16, 2013 • 5 Comments
Sand animation has an immediately recognizable and definitive “look”. It is marked by textural gradients, visible fingerprints and other marks of the artist’s hands. Most notably, sand animation is a monotone technique, the colors scale limited to the variations of…
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Report: Canterbury Anifest Awards 2013
by Chris Pallant • December 9, 2013 • 1 Comment
As a matter of background, Canterbury Anifest is now in its seventh year, and has welcomed speakers from Aardman, Double Negative, DreamWorks, Pixar, and The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, to name but a few. Each year, Anifest also hosts…
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“The Girl With Leaves” and “A Birthday”
by Willie Hartman • December 2, 2013 • 1 Comment
La Fille aux Feuilles or The Girl with Leaves by Marina Rosset is beautiful. Among the many commendable short films that grace the festival circuit every year, there are some pretty recognizable archetypes. There are the films about overcoming a fear,…
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Art Gallery and Art Papers Round-up
by Mark Chavez • November 25, 2013 • 0 Comments
Last year at about this time (which is last minute by most measures) I was asked to Chair the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery. Having successfully Chaired and organized the Educators Programme at SIGGRAPH Asia in 2008, the inaugural launch of…
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Animated Events – Experiences in ‘Boundary Crossings’
by Mike Nixon • November 18, 2013 • 0 Comments
I am a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts student from Quay School of Arts in a small town called Wanganui about 2 hours from Wellington in New Zealand. I learned animation only the year before last, doing both stop motion…