When an object in a film appears to be alive by virtue of its movements, this impression is most often produced through animation. Frame-by-frame animation is usually applied for this purpose—especially in live-action films. The animation of inanimate objects thus…
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Editorial: Animation and Agency
by Julia Eckel, Maike Sarah Reinerth, Vera Schamal • November 6, 2025 • 0 Comments
Over the past thirty years, the concept of agency as the ability and power to act has sparked engaging discussions across fields like Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, and Media Studies, offering unique insights for animation research. Agency…
A Town Called Panic!’s “Bricolage” Aesthetic and Low-budget Methods: A New Model for Ecological and Resilient Stop Motion Productions
by Cyril Lepot • September 26, 2022 • 1 Comment
One of the main attractions of stop motion animation is to be found in how the animator plays with materials, since the medium’s specificity, compared to 2D or 3D animation, is to film objects in real space. If any filmic…
The Invisible Memories of Animated Puppets’ Materiality: An Interdisciplinary Overview
by Vincenzo Maselli • February 12, 2018 • 1 Comment
I want to compare the path of interpretation of stop-motion films, which takes into account invisible meanings conveyed by visible and indirectly tangible material features of puppets, with the set of tools theorized in the field of product design in…