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The idea that midcentury modern design is the foundation of the aesthetic style prevalent in films produced by United Productions of America (UPA) studio is not a novel concept. Several books explore the connection between UPA films and other design conventions of the midcentury modern era, including Adam Abraham’s When Magoo Flew, Amid Amidi’s Cartoon Modern, </...
In one of the most iconic idle animations, if the player does not interact with Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega, 1991), he will tap his foot and look annoyed at the player expecting to move (see Fig. 1). When the player releases the controllers, she delegates agency to idle animations that can be designed to show the personality or attitude of digital characters, whether they b...
The agency of materials and technologies in the animation process is of interest to both scholars and animators. This post looks at examples of work from the Royal College of Art’s (thereafter RCA) animation archive, to highlight ways in which distributed agency has been embraced in the production of experimental student films and suggest links between these approaches and th...
This short text is a continuation of the reflections developed in my doctoral research, which presents an artistic research inquiry into how animation under the camera (a form of stop-motion animation) not only acknowledges the materials of animation as co-creators with their own agencies in the creative process, but also situates the engagement with physical matter as a mode...
