The Society for Animation Studies is happy to announce that the recipient of this year's Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media is Brittany Bailey, Arts University Bournemouth, for “Can Video Games Make us More Ethically Informed?” - a piece that is both fabulous and our first video game-themed winner! The selection committee has also awarded Honorable Mentions to the ...
In recognition of the many challenges facing SAS members during the Covid-19 pandemic, the SAS Board has created a new funding stream, to be administered in 2020, to support animation-related initiatives that might otherwise be at risk due to the impact of Covid-19 and the many diverse pressures and uncertainties that are caused by it. There are no fixed criteria to determine what these initiative...
ORGANIZED BY SAS' SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ANIMATION PaR This is a call for papers about Animation practice as research. We are planning a one-day symposium next Easter on this subject, and invite abstracts to both be presented at the symposium and also be published in a special edition of Animation: Practice, Process and Production (Intellect Press). The symposium is being organized at the Manches...
Dear SAS Members, It is with sadness that we announce the postponement of the Annual Conference that had been scheduled to take place at Tulane University, New Orleans, 15-18 June 2020. The conference will now take place at Tulane University in 2021, with the exact date to be confirmed. Information about the 2021 conference will be shared as it becomes available via the SAS email list and the cur...