“The delight of animation comes of the experience of movement, and the art of animation is, above all, that of movement”, writes Thomas Lamarre (2013: 117). At the heart of our contemporary cinematographic understanding of animation are older meanings of…
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Book Review
Review: Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics (2019), Ryan Pierson
by Colin Wheeler • February 16, 2024 • 0 Comments
Writing about the way elements move in animation proves to be a formidable challenge for any book on the medium, but Ryan Pierson’s Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics (2019) manages to explore philosophical theories related to change while providing…
Food
Food in Animation Creating a New Onscreen Identity
by Binoj V John • July 11, 2023 • 1 Comment
Food represents the culture and identity of a society, region or country and its depiction within an audio-visual work allows creating a connection with the audiences of those regions, as well as those who love to try these cuisines. Today,…
Food
A Smorgasbord of Substitutions: Food in/as Stop-Motion Animation
by Andrea Comiskey • May 19, 2023 • 1 Comment
One could enjoy quite a feast from the buffet of stop-motion history. You can find eggs in Charley Bowers’s Believe It or Don’t (1935), an array of fresh fruits and vegetables in Disney’s A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962), beans…
Violence in Animation, Women in Animation
Assailing the Senses: Treatments of Violence in Abstract Animation by Women
by Vicky Smith • November 29, 2021 • 0 Comments
While the theme ‘violence in animation’ might mostly be associated with indestructible cartoon characters, here I reflect upon the capacity of non-figurative animation to directly assail the senses. Can abstraction be as effective as figurative art in communicating issues of…
Animation and animals
From Human Animals to Animal Humans: Animation Practices in Three Versions of The Jungle Book
by Tina Ohnmacht and Lukas von Berg • May 13, 2019 • 2 Comments
The Warner Bros. production Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018, by Andy Serkis) uses motion capture for animating the animals. After seeing this film, we were left with a strong, yet uncanny fascination. In order to look further into this,…
Adaptation, Early Animation
British Animation After the War: ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ and Comic Strip Adaptation
by Malcolm Cook • February 18, 2019 • 2 Comments
Among the many recent commemorations of the centenary of First World War, its implications for animation history have received scant attention. In Britain the war stimulated considerable production of animated cartoons between 1914 and 1918, as explored in my recent…
Early Animation
Meditations on Metamorphosis: Natural History and Animation in Chomón’s Trick Films
by Colin Williamson • September 17, 2018 • 3 Comments
Animation is the medium that allows for a dramatization of a skirmish with nature. -Esther Leslie, “Animation and History” In Segundo de Chomón’s Création de la Serpentine (1908), a sorcerer transforms a billowing piece of fabric into a woman…
Early, Silent and Pre-cinematic Animation
September theme: Early, Silent and Pre-cinematic Animation Guest curated by: Malcolm Cook Deadline: August 27th, 2018 As Donald Crafton’s ground-breaking book made clear in 1982, the period Before Mickey was a fertile one for animation. Early trick films demonstrated…
Asian Animation
Isao Takahata (1935-2018): A Towering Presence in Japan’s Postwar Animation
by Tze-yue G. Hu • May 7, 2018 • 1 Comment
My knowledge of the late Japanese animation director’s work dates to 1996, when his critically acclaimed animated film Grave of the Fireflies (1988) was first screened publicly in Singapore at the first Singapore Animation Fiesta, of which I was the…