Kneading Bread and AI
Exploring Alex Boya’s world making, Zombie bread baking, and animation process.
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Exploring Alex Boya’s world making, Zombie bread baking, and animation process.
Some narrative animations owe their brilliance to simultaneously evoking pleasure and angst.
Lines of Thought
Some narrative animations owe their brilliance to simultaneously evoking pleasure and angst.
I Wanted to Walk Out of Kantor’s ‘Letter to a Pig’: But This is Not What You Think
Some narrative animations owe their brilliance to simultaneously evoking pleasure and angst.
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The Animator Scientist
Philippe Vaucher tackles nine old men.
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It Takes Your Breath Away
Heard any good films lately?
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‘Elizabeth Sees’
How we often see the bigger picture.
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Judgment Day
What neuroscience tells us about how we judge animations (or how ‘Blind Vaysha’ got it right).
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Going Full STEAM with Gary Schwartz
The intrepid animator, artist, educator and international vagabond just got out of prison.
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Can We Talk?
What’s on your mind right now?
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Evil Problem Solving
Animation – vanquishing evil one problem at a time.
Juggling and the Art of Team-Based Animation
Mine! Mine! Mine? Studying collaborative filmmaking dynamics at the heart of Hothouse 11, the NFB's English Animation Studio Apprenticeship Program.
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Eranos – Food for Thought
Before there was TED, there was Eranos.
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Wayne’s World
Sketching is transformational
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The Joy of Animation
What’s joy got to do with it? Is joy just a second-hand emotion?
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The Not-So-Silent Lambs
The flock of ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie’ have a way with(out) words.
Thinking Out Loud – An Open Love Letter to the 'Inside Out' Team
What should have been an easy review ended up not being so easy.
Gob-Smacked By Some Lines
Seductive details or artistic mastery?
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Go With Your Strength?
Words of helpful encouragement might be really bad advice.
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Awards that Animation Deserve
In a world where animation is reality, how would animated characters judge the best of filmed narratives?
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The Myth of the Split Brain
Are you a left brain or right brain person? If you’re an animator, you don’t get to choose.
Spoiler Alerts
Darth Vader is Luke’s father, Hans is the real villain, there is no Santa. Did this ruin your life? Not really, say some cognitive scientists.
Is Baymax After Your Job?
What if Baymax decides to put down his stethoscope and get into storyboarding instead?
The Zombie Attack or How Hiring an Artist Can Save Your Life
If you’re reading this, you probably survived the latest zombie attack and undoubtedly followed the CDC protocols for dealing with the zombie apocalypse.
Folman’s Uncanny Valley
That disturbing feeling you get when something familiar suddenly appears strange or “off?” Psychologists call this the “uncanny.”
The Four F’s and Other Animated Truths
Character animation is really not the illusion of life, but the illusion of “intelligent or motivated life” and takes advantage of four universal truths about how the mind works.
Riding in the Car with Boys and Toys (and a Few Actors)
After 10 years and 20,000 miles of chauffeuring Hollywood actors on Montreal shoots, Steven Woloshen wins at OIAF with '1000 Plateaus.'
