Image via Michael Sporn Animation SOCIETY FOR ANIMATION STUDIES 2013 NORMAN McLAREN - EVELYN LAMBART AWARD Best Scholarly Article on Animation From the period September 1, 2013 until October 1, 2013, the Society for Animation Studies is accepting electronic submission of articles dedicated to the study of animation history and theory published in 2010 or 2011 for the McLaren-Lamb...
Call for Applications: CalArts – Dean of the School of Film/Video
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...
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&...