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Previous Themes Upcoming Themes Animation and video-generating AI In Memoriam of Dr. Millie Young Book reviews Permanent Call for Posts Search for: Animation Studios in Europe Cartoon Saloon and the Crafting of a Studio Identity in the Digital Era by Eve Benhamou • May 9, 2024 • 0 Comments Since its creation in 1999, Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon has consistently stood out within the animation landscape, praised for its stories based on Irish folklore and showcasing a ‘painterly hand-drawn aesthetic’ (Rooney 2002). The studio’s first feature film, The Secret of… Read more → Animation Studios in Europe A Collective Effort: Irish Animation Studios by Yvonne Hennessy • May 1, 2024 • 0 Comments Ireland’s animation studios have emerged as a significant force in the global market, harnessing their unique position as the sole English-speaking country in the European Union and strategically leveraging funding partnerships because of their geographical positioning between both American and… Read more → Book Review Review: Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation (2020), Andrew R. Johnston by Andrew Connor • April 29, 2024 • 0 Comments In Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation, Andrew R. Johnston contends that animation has been ‘pulsing in fits and starts with the creation, distribution and experimentation of new technologies’ (Johnston: 2024, p. 3). He sets out to… Read more → Animation Studios in Europe The birth of Spanish animation studios and their settlement during the Franco’s dictatorship by Maria Pagès Rovira • April 26, 2024 • 0 Comments Despite a common belief, the industrialization of Spanish animation studios took place only a decade later than in the United States. However, the first experiences happened at the beginning of the 20th century. We can claim that Segundo de Chomón… Read more → Animation Studios in Europe The hidden nature of the puppet film as a collective work: the Polish ‘Se-Ma-For’ Studio of Small Film Forms by Ewa Ciszewska and Agata Hofelmajer-Roś • April 22, 2024 • 0 Comments Puppet films are often described as the work of a single author. The focus on the puppet featured in the film helps reveal the puppet filmmaking’s collaborative nature. A study on the collective mode of puppet filmmaking will be presented… Read more → Animation Studios in Europe How the Valley Became International: Animation Labor Divisions in Moomin TV Productions by Roosa Hirvela • April 17, 2024 • 0 Comments Many animation productions are international efforts, though the creative control often comes from studios in the US or Europe, while the studios in Asia end up performing the actual animation work. I will explore how the creative control in animation… Read more → Animation Studios in Europe Hidden In Plain Sight: Aardman’s American Dream by Markus Beeken • April 11, 2024 • 2 Comments While the trademark thumbprint pressed into Gromit’s snout is the archetypal giveaway of British animation studio Aardman’s distinct material style, I was always more preoccupied by a splodge of jam. In several scenes of The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993),… Read more → Implying the Surface in Animation Animating Affect in the Algorithmic by Despina Papadopoulos • March 5, 2024 • 0 Comments I have been taking photos, screenshots from my computer, printing them, re-photographing them, cropping them on my phone and reprinting them, creating assemblages that follow connections and human neural networks. In this process I take the role of a generative… Read more → Implying the Surface in Animation The Floating Horizon and Animated Disorientation by Alla Gadassik • February 27, 2024 • 0 Comments The horizon line is a key visual principle of the Western world-view, binding together histories of navigation, spatial representation, and philosophical inquiry. Ancient mariners valued the horizon as an orienting boundary between the earthly and the celestial, scanning perpendicularly across… Read more → Implying the Surface in Animation Animating the surface of the screen and the body by Sharon Young • February 20, 2024 • 0 Comments Animation goes, in all its superficiality, deeply into the substance of being, the hidden realms, the crevices beneath usual exposure, the constructions and reconstructions. 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