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technological developments in animation (post digital)

Taking for granted the digital world

by Nichola Dobson • July 16, 2013 • 0 Comments

At the 25th Annual SAS conference in LA last month, Tom Sito delivered the opening keynote entitled ‘Moving Innovation, A History of Computer Animation’. In it he examined the history of computer animation – which many of us think we…

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technological developments in animation (post digital)

Run Wrake: embracing digital animation

by Craig Smith • July 8, 2013 • 0 Comments

When I think about the term ‘digital animation’, the work of the late British animator Run Wrake instantly springs to mind. An early example of his work, Buttmeat (1996), embraces the ability of the drawn line to morph and change…

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Sound and Music

The importance of being an independent animator who makes music videos

by Eliska Decka • June 24, 2013 • 1 Comment

As a part of my PhD research, I recently did an interview with two young independent Slovak animators, Michaela Čopíková and Veronika Obertová, who work together as a creative duo called Ove Pictures. When I studied their webpage http://ovepictures.com/ as…

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Neither Fischinger nor McLaren, Visual Music in a different key

by Jean Detheux • June 24, 2013 • 3 Comments

Music informs images just as images inform music. This sounds simple enough, it is a manifestation of an essential (yet often overlooked) aspect of perception, that of “sense-giving” and of “sense-receiving” (Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, of course, Edmund Husserl, did brilliant…

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Animated Sound: Two Approaches (part 2)

by Aimee Mollaghan • June 17, 2013 • 3 Comments

Part two Part one of this two-part post on animated sound focused on the development of animated sound as a compositional tool. The second part of this blog post will outline a second type of animated sound, as developed by…

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The Future of Visual Music

by Diana Reichenbach • June 17, 2013 • 2 Comments

My first experience with a Jordan Belson film forever shaped my own direction as an artist.  From the cool, dark theater arose the rumble of ambient sound coupled with intense mixtures of color.  Such depth, such motion.  His ‘story’ was…

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Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music

by Cindy Keefer • June 10, 2013 • 2 Comments

Excerpt from: Optical Expression: Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and Visual Music An Edited Guide to the Key Concerns By Cindy Keefer Oskar Fischinger is credited as the father of Visual Music, but what does this really mean? What were his…

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Animated Sound: Two approaches (part 1)

by Aimee Mollaghan • June 10, 2013 • 3 Comments

Part One After observing the terrified expression on the face of yet another film student as I attempted to teach to them how to use a location sound mixer, it struck me that for animation and film students accustomed to…

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Animated Musicals

by Richard Leskosky • June 3, 2013 • 1 Comment

Musicals and animated films, stylized and fantastical forms both, have displayed a mutual affinity since sound technology permitted their combination. Several live-action musicals have famously included animated sequences, most notably MGM’s Anchors Aweigh (1944), where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry…

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technological developments in animation (pre digital)

Innovation and limitation

by Nichola Dobson • May 28, 2013 • 4 Comments

2014 will mark the centenary of Norman McLaren, one of the most innovative animators in the 20th Century. This post is something of an indulgence for me to act as notification of a work in progress.  The project to examine…

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