2026 marks the resurgence of animation’s most sophisticated anti-hero: Wile E. Coyote. While he has spent decades in a cycle of recursive trauma, he recently moved from the desert to the courtroom in the film Coyote v. Acme1. This cinematic…
Colin Williamson’s Drawn to Nature argues that “science animation” is not a niche offshoot bolted onto cartoon history, but a force that has long shaped mainstream American animation. Williamson’s central wager is persuasive: scientific ideas about nature did not merely…
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media by Sandra Annett is an insightful exploration of the intertwining of the physical body and the ‘flesh’ of animation. The author plays with the concepts of body and flesh…
The phenomenon of persistence of vision (POV) is central to the conceptualisation and pedagogy of animation. There exists however controversy between film/animation theories and empirical science as to the parameters of this phenomenon. POV is classically seen as the phenomenon…
