
AnimationStudies 2.0
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AnimationStudies 2.0 has been inspired by excellent academic sites as In Media Res and CST Online and hopes to develop into a vital resource. The posts will hopefully provide a starting point for feedback and discussions among the animation (and moving image) community.
AnimationStudies 2.0
4d ago
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…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
1M ago
Context Virtual Production (VP) is reshaping creative industries and education [1] and is often tied to the blending of digital and physical worlds on a single stage [2]. For educational institutions training future film practitioners, integrating VP into curriculums is…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
1M ago
Animation, edited by Scott Curtis, is a remarkable addition to the Behind the Silver Screen series of film books. This series promises to provide a history of filmmaking rather than merely a history of films, and Animation fulfills this promise…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
1M ago
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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AnimationStudies 2.0
1M ago
As 25 animators awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, they found themselves animating in their beds a gigantic insect. In 2015, to celebrate the first century of Kafka´s Metamorphosis (1915), a group of Latin-American animators started creating an Exquisite Corpse,…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
1M ago
This contribution is the first post of a two-part series on the creative production of Wing Yan Kwan and Lam Le’s Coffin Room (2024). The methods that creators use to communicate complex social issues evolve together with the development of…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
2M ago
This article aims to theorise the metamorphosis of analogue media into digital media, a process enacted by digital media itself. The analysis will start by using the YouTube video “This is DVD (1998-1999) Advert” as an emblem of digital media’s…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
2M ago
In his 1986 analysis of Foucault, philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1988) asks what the struggle for modern subjectivity might look like given that the subject must resist, on the one hand, the impulse to individualize themselves by exerting power over others…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
2M ago
The main characters in Isao Takahata’s 1994 film Pom Poko are tanuki, an animal attributed with shapeshifting powers in Japanese folklore. Their powers form part of an ethos of constant metamorphosis pervading Pom Poko, enabling Takahata to address his socio-political…
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AnimationStudies 2.0
2M ago
The universal but ever-changing relationship between humans and non-human nature is constantly interrogated through the language of animation. It is enabled precisely by animation’s distinct formal and aesthetic properties, such as plasmaticness, the illusion of life, anthropomorphosis and metamorphosis. These…
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