The Peer-reviewed Open Access Online Journal for Animation History and Theory – ISSN 1930-1928
The ontological existence of animated-film characters depends on the whim and inspiration of their creators, which entails two major components. Firstly, the animator will explicitly appear in the cartoon and interfere within the animation, such as Emile Cohl’s or the Fleischer Brothers’ hands. Or else, in Tex Avery cartoons, references to the script are repeatedly […]
Contents Strategies for a Reduction to 2D Graphical Styles in 3D Computer Graphics with Hybrid Aesthetics by Yen-Jung Chang Download this article as PDF. View this article in HTML. Animated Documentaries as Masking: When Exposure and Disguise Converge by Nea Ehrlich Download this article as PDF. View this article in HTML. The Transformation of the […]
User-Produced Flash Cartoons and Television Animation Introduction A number of prominent media scholars including Peter Lunenfeld (2000, p. 71) and Lev Manovich (2002, p. 4) have shown that advances in the technical capabilities of personal computers, combined with the increasing ubiquity of Internet access, have allowed the computer to become a single site for the […]
The Self-Portrait of the Artist and the Re-Start of Animation Introduction Originally, the self-portrait was a pictorial subgenre of portrayal, in which the artists became the model for their own paintings. However, it is also present in mediums such as cinema, when directors appear in their films, from ephemeral manifestations, like the Hitchcockian cameo […]
Jan Švankmajer’s conscious and unconscious worlds Introduction The portrayal of a character’s subjective, ‘inner’ experience onscreen is an enduring challenge for the filmmaker. Many techniques for conveying fantasies or dreams, such as blurring the frame’s edges, cross-dissolves and bleached colour, have been used – from soap operas to advertising – to such an extent that […]
Representation, The Model Minority & Whiteness on King of the Hill During its thirteen-season run from 1997-2009, King of the Hill was the second longest running animated series in U.S. television history (after The Simpsons). Co-created by Mike Judge of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead and Simpson’s writer Greg Daniels, the now-syndicated Emmy Award-winning show features […]
Assessing the failings of mechanisms of power through comedy has remained a constant throughout animation. Within the specific arena of ‘the popular’, always a potent area for consideration, adult British network television animation in the early part of the 21st century has maintained a unique relationship with modes of Satire that has enabled writers and […]
Contents “Touching Cloth…”: Considering Satire and the Clergy in Popular Contemporary British Animation by Van Norris Download this article as PDF. View this article in HTML. We’re Asian, More Expected of Us: Representation, The Model Minority & Whiteness on King of the Hill by Alison Loader Download this article as PDF. View this article in […]
In animation the issue of movement is central to any discussion of its nature, irrespective of its form, style or process of creation. As an animator, Norman McLaren believed “the most important thing in film is motion, movement” (in Bendazzi, 1994:117), whilst Wells describes animated films as “the artificial creation of the illusion of movement […]
Outside Japan, anime is mainly used as a term referring to animation made in Japan. Inside Japan though, the word “anime,” an abbreviated pronunciation of animation in Japanese has been used widely as an abbreviation for all animation. However, despite the escalating popularity and attention in the worldwide media, the meaning and usage of the […]