Animation

On the function of an enigmatic ornament: wattles increase the conspicuousness of visual displays in male fowl

by K-lynn Smith

Artist vs the Totalitarian System as portrayed in Priit Pärn's "Luncheon on the Grass"

by Mari Laaniste

Conference paper, presented at "Baltic Cinemas: Past and Present", Riga, Latvia, September 10-11, 2008. Focus on Priit Pärn's 1987 animated film "Eine murul" / "Luncheon on the Grass".

Pushing the Limits: Priit Pärn’s Animated Cartoons and Soviet Cinema Censorship

by Mari Laaniste

M. Laaniste, Pushing the Limits: Priit Pärn’s Animated Cartoons and Soviet Cinema Censorship. – Place and Location. Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics VII/2008: Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc. Ed. E. Näripea, A. Trossek, p. 47-55.

Pushing the Limits: Priit Pärn’s Animated Cartoons and Soviet Cinema Censorship

by Mari Laaniste

M. Laaniste, Pushing the Limits: Priit Pärn’s Animated Cartoons and Soviet Cinema Censorship. – Place and Location. Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics VII/2008: Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc. Ed. E. Näripea, A. Trossek, p. 47-55.

Eine murul. Ühe animafilmi tekst ja kontekst / Luncheon on the Grass: The text and context of one animated film

by Mari Laaniste

M. Laaniste, Eine murul. Ühe animafilmi tekst ja kontekst / Luncheon on the Grass: The text and the context of one animated film – Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies in Art and Architecture 2006, vol. 15 (no. 4), p. 77-97, English summary p. 92-95.

An essay about Priit Pärn's animated film "Luncheon on the Grass" ("Eine murul", 1987).

Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the risus purus

by Suzanne Buchan

Buchan, Suzanne, "Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the risus purus," in: Horton, Andrew and Joanna E Rapf (eds) A Companion to Film Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (forthcoming October), ISBN: 978-1-4443-3859-1

A construção da percepção em imagem digital e o desenvolvimento de novas formas de literacia visual 12

by Filipe Luz

Mplus Thailand produces animations for HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention

by Christopher Walsh

News article from Fridae.com from 22 January 2010 with Nada Chaiyajit and Pad Thepsai

Responding to an alarming rise in HIV incidence among MSM in Thailand, Mplus, a community-based organisation formed to... more Responding to an alarming rise in HIV incidence among MSM in Thailand, Mplus, a community-based organisation formed to improve the sexual health of men that have sex with men (MSM), produced animations for their HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention programs. The animations are new educational resources produced to increase understandings of safe sex practices and address low perceptions of personal risk to HIV/AIDS among Chiang Mai’s diverse MSM population.

Analysis of Pocoyo’s Animation Character Design

by Alvanov Mansoor

Published in 2009 ITB Digital Media Festival Proceeding

Character design is one of significant element and process in making stories, such as narrative text, picture book,... more Character design is one of significant element and process in making stories, such as narrative text, picture book, comic, even animation. A good character can be measured on how a character influences the audience through the story told.

This research will observe and analyze characters from Pocoyo animation. Pocoyo is production of Zinkia Entertainment Studio in Spain, and awarded as Best Character in El Chupete 2006 festival. This paper will discuss on uniqueness and special feature on Pocoyo’s characters through the study of character design.

Keywords: illustration, character, character design, animation

Analysis of Kung Fu Panda’s Animation Character Design

by Alvanov Mansoor

Published in 2009 ITB Digital Media Proceeding

The development of Animation is greatly thanks to the information & visual communication technology. One of the... more The development of Animation is greatly thanks to the information & visual communication technology. One of the successful animation today is Kung Fu Panda. Although panda is as we know lazy and fat animal, it’s become paradox when we correlate it with Kung Fu genre, which depends on speed and power. This research is trying to study and understand the concept and reasons behind Kung Fu Panda’s character design through character design study.

Keyword : animation, character, visual personification.

Visual Analysis on Characters and Setting of Spongebob Squarepants Animation TV Series

by Alvanov Mansoor

Taken from 2009 ITB Digital Media Festival Proceeding

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animation TV series produced by Nickleodeon . The story mostly revolves around... more SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animation TV series produced by Nickleodeon . The story mostly revolves around the adventure of the title character, SpongeBob SquarePants and his underwater friends in a fictional underwater city called Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants is a childish and goofy yellow sea sponge and shaped as an ordinary square kitchen sponge.
Strong visuals and ideas of SpongeBob series’ characters and settings are interesting and essential objects for visual study and illustration inspiration.

In this paper, the characters and settings taken from season one until season four of theanimation TV series will be observed from visual approach and then studied in detail and analyzed with theory of visual stereotyping and theories of setting and character design.

Keywords: character design, setting design, cartoon, animation

Digital Animation: Repercussions of New Media on Traditional Animation Concepts

by Filipe Luz

Review: Yuri Norstein and Francesca Yarbusova, Юpuŭ Нopшmeŭн ŭ Φpaнчecкa Яpбycoвa: Скaзкa Скaзoк (Yuri Norstein and Francesca Yarbusova: Tale of Tales). …

by Alla Gadassik

Análise semiótica e transcrição do crédito final do filme WALL-E

by Hana Luzia

Co-authored with Juliana Francine da Silva (http://ufpe.academia.edu/julianafrancine)
Orientação da Profa. Gisela Carneiro Leão / Grupo de estudo "Design e Análise Semiótica".

Crédito final | Wall-E
Diretor: Jim Capobianco
Direção de Produção: Sara Maher, Galyn Susman
Designer... more Crédito final | Wall-E
Diretor: Jim Capobianco
Direção de Produção: Sara Maher, Galyn Susman
Designer chefe: Scott Morse
Designer de títulos: Susan Bradley
Animação: Alexander Woo, Bob Scott, Kristophe Vergne
Pinturas de fundo: John Lee
Pintura 2d: Willy Hwang
After Effects: Chris O’Dowd, Catherine M. Kelly

Nella Patria di Heidi (Translated in Italian by Marco Pellitteri)

by Ariane Beldi

Kappa Magazine. 06/2005

Line and Colour in The Band Concert

by Sean Cubitt

'Ghosts in the Machine: Experiencing Animation'

by Suzanne Buchan

Published in Greg Hilty (ed) : Watch Me Move. The Animation Show, pp 28-38, London: Merrell, 2011. ISBN 978 1 8589 4558 3

There are many stories, and histories, of animation film. Yet there are other ways of telling a story of animation... more There are many stories, and histories, of animation film. Yet there are other ways of telling a story of animation that peel back and go below the material, historical and factual surface of this cinematic technique. Because the seven thematic concepts of Watch Me Move have a specific thematic focus, it allows permeation between different animation techniques and historically and stylistically discrete canons. This essay concentrates on four of the themes that consider the viewer's experience of animation: apparitions, structures, fragments and visions. Many works in these themes share certain features, properties and experiential phenomena for viewers. They tend to:  undermine conventional narrative; lack dialogue and are sound and music driven; feature imaginative, impossible 'worlds' and non-anthropomorphic figures; offer philosophical/perceptual concepts that diverge from our everyday experience of 'reality', and they are often self-reflexive. Tex Avery, one of the most radical Hollywood cartoon directors, is purported to have said "You can do anything in an animated cartoon." Looking beyond the cartoon, this essay reveals the fabulous experimentation of some of the exhibition's works that fall outside the realm of commercial popular culture, foregrounding the viewers' experience of the creative imagination that the animated form presents.

Suzanne Buchan was a Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition.

Editorial Suzanne Buchan Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, Nov 2008; vol. 3 No 3

by Suzanne Buchan

Editorial for animation: an interdisciplinary journal (Sage Journals)

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Editorial Suzanne Buchan Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, Nov 2007; vol. 2 No 3

by Suzanne Buchan

Editorial for animation: an interdisciplinary journal, (Sage Journals)

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Editorial Suzanne Buchan Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, Jul 2008; vol. 3 No 2

by Suzanne Buchan

Editorial for animation: an interdisciplinary journal, (Sage Journals)

Editorial and description of issue contents. Editorial and description of issue contents.