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Ink & paint : the women of Walt Disney's animation
\"Johnson pulls back the celluloid curtain on the nearly vanished world of ink pens, paintbrushes, pigments and tea ... Meet the pioneering women who brought hand-rendered animated stories to vibrant, multicolored life at Walt Disney Studios and beyond. Extensively researched with the full support of the entire Walt Disney Studios archival resources, plus a multitude of private collections, firsthand accounts, newly discovered materials, and production documentation, as well as never-before-seen photography and artwork, this ... volume redefines the collective history of animation\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Assessing the Condition of Complex Poly-Material Artworks by Py-GC-MS: The Study of Cellulose Acetate-Based Animation Cels
The material composition of a group of Rodovetri, hand-painted animation cels, made in the 1950s and 1960s for Italian television, has been determined by Flash Py-GC-MS, Thermally assisted Hydrolysis and Methylation-(Py-)GC-MS and GC-MS investigations, where, for the pyrolysis applications, the pyrolyzer is connected septum-less to the GC inlet. The condition of the selected animation cels was generally poor (yellowing, exudation, warping, cracking). The cels are made of plasticized cellulose acetate (CA) and decorated with alkyd paint. Exudating plasticizers from the CA support migrated into the paint; this has softened the paint layers and made the cels stick together. CA is known to be very unstable and easily subjected to degradation, which cannot be reversed, only slowed down by preventive conservation. Most of the cels are plasticized with bis(2-methoxyethyl) phthalate (DMEP) and triphenyl phosphate (TPP). The research shows a relationship between the degradation of CA and the presence of TPP and DMEP.
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Special Affects
The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create 'special' sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel and the fantastic. Such affections subsequently become mined by consumer industries for profit, thereby explaining the connection between media and consumerism that today seems inherent to the culture industry. Such modes and their affections are also translated into ideology, as American culture seeks to make sense of the sociocultural changes accompanying these new media, particularly as specific versions of American Dream narratives. Special Affects is the first extended exploration of the connection between media and consumerism, and the first book to extensively apply Deleuzian film theory to animation. Its exploration of the connection between the animated form and consumerism, and its re-examination of twentieth-century animation from the perspective of affect, makes this an engaging and essential read for film-philosophy scholars and students.
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Animated Film and Disability
-- Slava Greenberg's research explores the transformative potential of mainstream and emerging media forms. On October 4, Slava won second place in the 2021 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholars Award contest from the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion at IU Press. -- This is the first book to provide a methodology for analyzing representation of people with differing abilities in animated films. -- The analysis in Alison Kafer's Feminist, Queer, Crip (IUP, 2013) provoked this book. IUP's strategic plan identifies this book as motivation to expand acquisitions in disability studies. -- The target audience includes students and scholars of film and media studies and disability studies.
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Chinese Animation and Socialism
This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.
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Animation Behind the Iron Curtain
And, for animation novices and enthusiasts alike, Animation Behind the Iron Curtain offers breakout sections to explain many of the techniques and aesthetic considerations that go into this fascinating art form. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Cold War era and really cool animated films!.
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Pulses of Abstraction
Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its
importance to computer imagery and cinema Animation and
technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn
flipbooks to stop-motion and computer-generated imagery (CGI),
animation's identity is in flux. But many of these moving image
technologies, like CGI, emerged from the world of animation.
Indeed, animation has made essential contributions to not only
computer imagery but also cinema, helping shape them into the
fields and media forms we know today. In Pulses of
Abstraction , Andrew R. Johnston presents both a revealing
history of abstract animation and an investigation into the
relationship between animation and cinema. Examining a rich array
of techniques-including etching directly onto the filmstrip,
immersive colored-light spectacles, rapid montage sequences, and
digital programming- Pulses of Abstraction uncovers
important epistemological shifts around film and related media.
Just as animation's images pulse in projection, so too does its
history of indexing technological and epistemic changes through
experiments with form, material, and aesthetics. Focusing on a
period of rapid media change from the 1950s to the 1970s, this book
combines close readings of experimental animations with in-depth
technological studies, revealing how animation helped image culture
come to terms with the rise of information technologies.
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Shape correspondence for cel animation based on a shape association graph and spectral matching
We present an effective spectral matching method based on a shape association graph for finding region correspondences between two cel animation keyframes. We formulate the correspondence problem as an adapted quadratic assignment problem, which comprehensively considers both the intrinsic geometric and topology of regions to find the globally optimal correspondence. To simultaneously represent the geometric and topological similarities between regions, we propose a shape association graph (SAG), whose node attributes indicate the geometric distance between regions, and whose edge attributes indicate the topological distance between combined region pairs. We convert topological distance to geometric distance between geometric objects with topological features of the pairs, and introduce Kendall shape space to calculate the intrinsic geometric distance. By utilizing the spectral properties of the affinity matrix induced by the SAG, our approach can efficiently extract globally optimal region correspondences, even if shapes have inconsistent topology and severe deformation. It is also robust to shapes undergoing similarity transformations, and compatible with parallel computing techniques.
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Animation in the Middle East
The internationally acclaimed films Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir only hinted at the vibrant animation culture that exists within the Middle East and North Africa. In spite of censorship, oppression and war, animation studios have thrived in recent years – in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Turkey – giving rise to a whole new generation of entrepreneurs and artists. The success of animation in the Middle East is in part a product of a changing cultural climate, which is increasingly calling for art that reflects politics. Equally, the professionalization and popularization of film festivals and the emergence of animation studios and private initiatives are the results of a growing consumer culture, in which family-friendly entertainment is big business. Animation in the Middle East uncovers the history and politics that have defined the practice and study of animation in the Middle East, and explores the innovative visions of contemporary animators in the region.
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The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation
In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White, Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo, necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to contemporary experience.
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