Animation Studies

The Peer-reviewed Open Access Online Journal for Animation History and Theory – ISSN 1930-1928

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Melanie Hani, Roberta Bernabei & Antonia Liguori – The Good Hearts Model (GHM): an investigation into the extension of animation therapy; the GHM method with Digital Storytelling and Jewellery

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

Made with Love: Mediating the use of Animation when tackling Bereavement In 2006 at St Benedict’s hospice, Sunderland (UK), a pilot project was undertaken to investigate the effectiveness of using animation practice (creating films and working through the preproduction process; creating the necessary artwork leading to a film) to tackle issues surrounding and relating to […]

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Qing Sheng Ang – A painting-inspired approach to develop exploration in 3D animation visual style

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

Painting is a mode of pictorial expression that has spanned centuries. One can speak of the Impressionist or Baroque as recognizable styles in painting. In stark contrast, 3D Computer Graphics (CG) was only introduced in the 1970s by engineers from Pixar (Bendazzi, 2016, p. 17). When speaking about recognizable styles in 3D CG, one may […]

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Cátia Peres – Liberated worlds: Construction of meaning in the universes of Hayao Miyazaki

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

  Making sense of the real world and creating a fictional world I like the expression “lost possibilities.” To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, and a life. To exist here, now means to lose the possibility of being countless other potential selves. (Miyazaki 1996, p. 306) From a cognitive […]

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Qing Sheng Ang – The Introspective Merlion: Transculturalism in Singaporean Animation

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

Introduction Singapore achieved independence in 1965. In 2015, the government of Singapore launched the SG50 initiative (2015, SG50 Celebration Ideas), calling upon Singaporeans from all walks of life to propose ideas for celebrating 50 years of independence. The top-down initiative focused on “things that make us uniquely Singaporean,” in hopes that residents would engage in […]

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Paritosh Singh – Animating Indianness: A study of assimilating Indian images in a western narrative

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

1            Introduction Stories have always been an integral part of every society and culture. Storytelling is the most common means of sharing experiences. It majorly influences various aspects of our life and plays a vital role in defining our values, desires and dreams. Stories can be considered as universal since they bridge the gaps between […]

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Tariq Alrimawi – Uses of Arabic Calligraphy in Religious Animated Films

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

The aim of this paper is to examine and understand the uses of Arabic calligraphy as a visual language tool in animated films. The results of this exploration will enable Arab animators to use religious stories adapted from the Qur’an to make animated films for the domestic and international animation market. Most of the Islamic […]

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Rose Bond – Poetics and Public Projection: Layered History, Redrawn Memory

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

In 2002, I stood in the street in Old Town Portland, my eyes trained on the second-story windows of the New Wah Mae building. We were running an alignment test for my first animated installation, Illumination No.1.  When the windows lit up, I was caught off guard. My moving images, the drawings so repetitively familiar […]

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Kay Kane – Animation as Conservation: Classical Values in Contemporary Practice

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

Something curious happened to visual fine art over the course of the twentieth century, something that did not happen to other art forms.[1] It shed any semblance of a disciplinary base. The term ‘Fine Art’ used to denote the traditional plastic arts – drawing, painting, sculpture – as distinguished, on the one hand, from other […]

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Beatriz Herráiz Zornoza – Dot: Animation in theatre for children

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. John Lasseter Introduction This research aims to shed some light on the relationship between animation and contemporary theatre. It is oriented in two directions; one that involves reading and analysing sources and the other is due to having been part of a team repeatedly […]

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Victoria Grace Walden – Animation: Textural Difference and the Materiality of Holocaust Memory

Posted on by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

The notion of “Holocaust animation” may seem paradoxical; how can a medium which, in the popular eye, is usually associated with comedy, play and fantasy be used to remember one of the 20th century’s most traumatic events? By examining the textural difference of animation to our lived world in texts such as Silence (Yadin and […]

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