This contribution is the second post of a two-part series on the creative production of Wing Yan Kwan and Lam Le’s Coffin Room (2024). Confined in a small apartment, cramped with a tiny bunk bed, old furniture, canned foods, and…
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The Cat and the Lion: Rhetoric on Digital and Traditional Set Dressing in Animation
by Colin Wheeler • July 26, 2023 • 0 Comments

While all productions have some element of set design, Andre Bazin would distinguish directors focused on mise-en-scene from those who preferred naturalism and fluid editing: the former would meticulously construct shots to produce distinct, if occasionally artificial imagery (Konigsberg 1998,…