This is a media-archaeological excavation of the unique animation teaching methods of artist Sky David, formerly known as Dennis Pies, who has spent his life combining art and science, working with movement, subjectivity, tactility, and animacy—an interdisciplinary practice in the…
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Animated Intergenerational Interviews
by Ruth Hayes • January 9, 2023 • 0 Comments
In winter, 2021, I and my co-faculty, Laurie Meeker, assigned our students to produce Animated Intergenerational Interviews about individuals’ relationships with their environment. The interviews were to be 30 to 60 seconds long, include at least 30 seconds of animation…
Analyzing Animation: An Introduction to the Theme
by Christine Veras • June 3, 2022 • 0 Comments
The final assignment in my undergraduate Animation Studies course is film analysis. The students use an animation of their choice as a primary source to analyze and draw connections with the content studied in class. Throughout the semester, students read,…
Story Prospecting: The Value of Outdoor Field Research in Animation Pedagogy
by Matthew Gidney and Jack McGrath • June 27, 2020 • 0 Comments
In 2015 and again in 2017 we brought a small class of undergraduate animation students from the University of Technology Sydney on camping expeditions into the Sydney hinterland to seek out evidence and inspiration for animation in abandoned settlements of…
Two Moments: Experimental Animation and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
by Ruth Hayes • May 4, 2020 • 1 Comment
In fall and winter of 2019-20, I collaborated with Alice Nelson, a Spanish language and Latin American Studies scholar, teaching the fulltime program “Arts of Urgency: Latin American Film and Literature” at The Evergreen State College. The ability to collaborate…
Large Scale Stop Motion Animation with Youth
by John Akre • January 23, 2017 • 0 Comments
Animation can be a powerful way to introduce young people to media making. As Yvonne Andersen (1970: 9) notes, “it is dynamic enough to stimulate them and yet easy enough for them to handle.” For several years, I have been…