Figure 1. A still from Norstein’s The Tale of Tales, where women dancing with their husbands all the sudden appear alone. Animation, a powerful storytelling medium, has been breaking down complex ideas in a visually engaging way for over a…
In The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing, editors Lisa Scoggin and Dana Plank gather fourteen chapters that examine how music operates across animated forms and interactive worlds. With a nod toward both classic and contemporary…
Dimensions of Dialogue (1983) begins with two faces shaped out of random accoutrements such as decaying fruits and vegetables, kitchen equipment and utensils etc. The two faces move towards each other and clash in a haphazard mishmash of objects—face shapes…
Dougal and the Blue Cat is the 1970 animated film by Serge Danot that features a mysterious voice and a cat named Buxton that plot to take over the world and turn it blue. The animated film is based on…
The silent penguin Feathers McGraw has become one of the most famous British animated villains thanks to Aardman’s distinct Claymation style. First introduced in The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993), McGraw now returns more than 20 years later in Wallace and…
In general, the outsourcing of animation production leverages cost-effectiveness and specialized expertise. However, before the subcontracting of animation to Eastern Europe and Asia became a common practice, the outsourcing of Spanish animation was a cheap way for other countries such…
Unsurprisingly, József Gémes’ The Princess and the Goblin (1991), an animated co-production between Hungary, Wales, and Japan, appears to be a forgotten film. Produced and circulated during the Disney renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s, its comparative obscurity…
Like many filmmaking practices outside Hollywood, Turkish cinema lacks a popular sci-fi genre. The main reasons for this are insufficient governmental or private funding and a competent labor force – all essential for producing the visual effects that lie at…
Figure 1. Render of Houdini scene featuring the Utah teapot which is available as an “off-the-shelf” object in most contemporary 3D software packages. 2024 Gina Moore. Found in various industries including film, advertising, games, and visualisation, computer graphics (CG) are…
In his report from the 1964 Annecy Festival, the third edition of the oldest international animation festival, Derek Hill lamented the poor global selection but nevertheless concluded that the governments of Canada and Yugoslavia remained “the two most enlightened cartoon…
