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In the Spirit of Animated Objects: Agencies in Practice

When an object in a film appears to be alive by virtue of its movements, this impression is most often produced through animation. Frame-by-frame animation is usually applied for this purpose—especially in live-action films. The animation of inanimate objects thus becomes emblematic of cinematic animation itself. This is evidenced by the fact that the Pixar Studios’ mascot, L...


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AI Anymation and Agency

Arguably, artificial intelligence and its evolving capacities for (moving) image generation, consistently raise questions about agency and animation. While responses to these developments oscillate between fears of job loss and enthusiastic embraces of new possibilities, underneath lies the question: What happens to the agency of animators when AI becomes central to animation...


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Animating Agency: Robots, Humans, and the Art of Unexpected Roles

Etymologically, the term ‘animation’ is derived from the Latin word animatio, from animare. Probably originating in the 16th century, ‘animation’ has two key meanings, one referring to movement and the other to bestowing life (Wells 2011). These meanings are central to how we think about animation: On the one hand, animation is about motion, about the illusi...


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Counter Hegemony in Lesbian Space Princess – Animation as a queer epistemic tool?

The animation film Lesbian Space Princess (2025, Hobbs & Varghese) is a radical counter-utopian experiment in animated worldbuilding. It utilizes animation’s capacity to re:imagine and re:configure without an indexical link[1] to construct a homonormative society while avoiding the tra...


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From meat machines to airplanes — posthuman approaches to agency in Chicken Run (2000)

One of the characteristics of animation is that it offers the illusion of life, in which passive materials are transformed into living entities with agency of their own. A range of animated films from Bambi (Hand, 1942) to The Jungle Book (Reitherman, 1967) and The Wild Robot (Sanders, 2023) features talking animals with varying degrees of ...


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