It seems like that to become an independent animator isn’t as hard as to keep being one after one leaves the safety net of your animation department. During these past 2 years while conducting my PhD research about the creative…
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SOUND DESIGN: RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
by Kara Scott-James • October 13, 2014 • 2 Comments
1. Narrative Aesthetics – Sound Design in Story Development: A Case for Pre-AuralVis Recap – MFA (Production Research); work presented at SAS 2014 (Toronto) Despite an increasing awareness of sound design many filmmakers still neglect sound’s potentials, particularly within early-stage development. …
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Channelling Time for Over Time
by Birgitta Hosea • September 16, 2014 • 0 Comments
Building on her previous work on the concept of time, zoey deutch nude jadeadamsxoxoOver Time (overtimeart.org) is a practice-based research project curated by Anne Robinson (London Metropolitan University), culminating in an exhibition and series of performances in Greenwich during September…
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Intersections: Dance, Animation, Ecology, and tranSTURM
by Rachel Walls • September 9, 2014 • 6 Comments
A few months back, I was invited to participate in Sydney-based art collective tranSTURM, working on a raft of abstract animation projects. The first project, Light_Space (2014) made an abstract analysis of movement in Olympic sport. Commissioned by Sydney Olympic…
Gender and Animation
Surviving The Animator’s Survival Kit: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
by Alison Reiko Loader • August 25, 2014 • 10 Comments
The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams will be recommended to countless students beginning animation classes in the next few weeks. Cited by Paul Wells in his SAS Toronto keynote in a shortlist of texts commonly found in professional studios,…
Gender and Animation
Hidden from view/ing?
by Nichola Dobson • August 18, 2014 • 0 Comments
There seems to have been a resurgence of discussion of all things feminist recently, from the online campaigns of #everydaysexism, the attempts to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practises[i], to the increasing voices of dissent among young female audiences, in…
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To Miyazaki, with Gratitude
by Kodi Maier • August 18, 2014 • 4 Comments
The first time I saw Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away I was in BJ’s, a wholesale club store like Costco or Sam’s Club that my parents frequented for our weekly groceries. I never loved anime as much as some of my…
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Effeminate Ponies?
by Claire Burdfield • August 11, 2014 • 0 Comments
nadia176 nude pussy My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010- ) is one of the most discussed children’s cartoon programmes of the 21st century, receiving academic interest (for example, the “My Little Pony: A Transcultural Phenomenon” research conference at University…
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Disney Princesses…What harm can they do?
by Bella Honess Roe • August 4, 2014 • 10 Comments
When I taught my module on the History and Theory of Animation to my final year undergrads at the University of Surrey last semester I was really looking forward to the week on representation of gender. I’ve taught this class…
"National" Animation
Not One for Rumours
by Anitha Balachandran • June 23, 2014 • 1 Comment
The Films Division was created in 1948, the year after India’s independence. Imbued with a new discourse of official nationalism, it was to reflect the shifting ideologies of the emergent nation state. Describing the performative pedagogical functions of nationalism, historians…