As the development of technology grows, so does the dependency on technology in everyday life. We create new products that improve our lifestyle, but how does this affect us when we are without those technologies? The 2018 graduate student short…
The stability of animation as a viable economic industry was immeasurably supported and strengthened by the Walt Disney Studios’ aspirations to innovate. The desire of Disney (the man and the company) to harness the possibilities of technology during cinema’s first…
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…
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…
