Peter Moyes & Louise Harvey – She’s Not There: When New Illusions Meet Ol’ Time RealTtime; Mo-cap, Virtuality and Live Music Performance

(Animation) began as something other than drama. It was not a story in three acts; it was a singular event, like an implausible trapeze act … (Norman Klein, 1993) “There  is  no  interest  in  achieving  the  possible,  but  it  is  exceedingly interesting to perform the impossible.” “Astound me!” (Serge Diaghilev, 1909-1929; Director of The Ballets […]

Sophie Mobbs – Intimate Scrutiny: Using Rotoscoping to Unravel the Auteur-Animator Beneath the Theory

Through steps such as these we can understand how it is, that as soon as some melancholy thought passes through the brain, there occurs a just perceptible drawing down of the corners of the mouth, or a slight raising up of the inner ends of the eyebrows, or both movements combined, and immediately afterwards a […]