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…
Watching Animation
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…
Watching Animation
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…
Watching Animation
“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…
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The Mechanical Mouse – The Manufacturing Systems of Animation
by Daryl Boman • November 11, 2013 • 0 Comments
The subject of technology in animation would not be complete without the inclusion of the innovations of the systems that allowed the art form to thrive in a commercial fashion. Much has been made of the artists and to a…
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Protean Media: One Animator’s Perspective
by Ruth Hayes • November 4, 2013 • 3 Comments
In “The Transforming Image: the Roots of Animation in Metamorphosis and Motion”, Tom Gunning analyzes two optical devices, the “blow book” and the flipbook, to investigate the “eternally protean nature of the moving image” and the relationship between animation and…
Acting and Performance
Animation and Performance
by Lynn Tomlinson • September 30, 2013 • 6 Comments
In preparing my presentation for June’s SAS meeting at USC, on three women who dance or perform along their animated projections, I came across an intriguing article by Teri Silvio, in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, entitled “Animation: The New…
Acting and Performance
The Voice
by David Perlmutter • September 23, 2013 • 1 Comment
In the beginning was the voice. The voice was that of the characters, and the very world in which animated series exist. The creators heard it, and with their pens and paintbrushes, they made the visual aspect of it real.…