Maureen Furniss Award – Animation Studies

Animation Studies

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

Gary Wilson – The Glass Canvas: Approaching Digital Direct Under Camera Animation (runner-up)

Posted on May 28, 2019May 31, 2019 by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

There will be a time when people gaze at paintings, and ask why the objects remain rigid and stiff. They will demand action. – Winsor McCay (qtd. in Wells 1998). Digital tools have brought about a “tectonic shift” throughout the world of art and design practice, redefining the economic viability and utility of previously […]

Jason Douglass – In Search of a “New Wind”: Experimental, Labour Intensive and Intermedial Animation in 1950s and 60s Japan (winner)

Posted on May 28, 2019May 31, 2019 by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

Though critics and scholars continue to split hairs over which films best exemplify Japan’s “New Wave” of cinema from the late 1950s through the 1960s, the vast majority of works highlighted within such debates share one overarching commonality: they are works of live-action cinema. Situating animated media within a sea of scholarship celebrating handheld cameras, […]

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Animation Studies

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Gary Wilson – The Glass Canvas: Approaching Digital Direct Under Camera Animation (runner-up)

Jason Douglass – In Search of a “New Wind”: Experimental, Labour Intensive and Intermedial Animation in 1950s and 60s Japan (winner)