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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…

by Vincenzo Maselli • June 26, 2018 • 2 Comments

In this post I examine the increasing trend of creating stop-motion films that metaphorically reveal the artificiality of the medium by exposing and dismantling the filmmaking process within the narrative. These are films that stage elements akin to a “making-of”,…

by John Akre • January 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Animation can be a powerful way to introduce young people to media making. As Yvonne Andersen (1970: 9) notes, “it is dynamic enough to stimulate them and yet easy enough for them to handle.” For several years, I have been…

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Tag Archive for stop motion

Meditations on Metamorphosis: Natural History and Animation in Chomón’s Trick Films

by Colin Williamson • September 17, 2018 • 3 Comments

The Narrative of the “Making-of”: Self-reflexive Narratives in Stop-motion Film Productions

by Vincenzo Maselli • June 26, 2018 • 2 Comments

Large Scale Stop Motion Animation with Youth

by John Akre • January 23, 2017 • 0 Comments