Image by Steven Damron via Flickr The CalArts School of Film/Video has been ranked among the top 10 film schools in the world by the Hollywood Reporter in 2011 and 2012. CalArts is seeking a dean that will provide the visionary leadership to build upon the current vigorous state of the school as it enters the next stage in an already distinguished history, combining a keen interest in the leg...
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Mouse-Performance-World-Making-Animation/dp/0520261046 "Donald Crafton, our lively guide, shows us around a Tooniverse populated by performers, not just images, who engage us in all the ways their flesh-and-blood counterparts do, and then some. Taking classical animation as his terrain, Crafton nevertheless pushes ongoing discussions of performance, liveness, an...
The Society for Animation Studies is celebrating 25 years with an anniversary pin. You might have seen it at the Melbourne conference already. For those of you who don't already have one, you can order it via Paypal for $6 (the same for all destinations). Please click on the pin's image below to order! Or use this PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&...
A selection of writings from the proceedings of ‘Animation Histories and Futures’, a one-day symposium set up to stimulate discussion between animation researchers, teachers and practitioners, is now available for download. ‘Animation Histories and Futures’ was hosted by the University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building in collaboration with the Facultie...
