Shadow of a mouse: New book by Donald Crafton

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...

Commemorate the 25th SAS anniversary with a pin!

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&...

UTS SIAF Selected Writings from ‘Animation Histories and Futures’ Symposium

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...

25th Annual Conference, 2013

The John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts The University of Southern California and the School of Cinematic Arts is proud to host REDEFINING ANIMATION The 25th Annual Conference for the Society for Animation Studies 2013 June 23th - 27th, Los Angeles California http://anim.usc.edu/sas2013.html IMPORTANT: DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ABSTRACTS: NEW DEADLINE: December 10, 2012 In the ever ...