Month: February 2014
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Laura Stewart, an animation student at Concordia University, recorded her grandmother during the 2012 winter holidays. Of the many stories she heard about life on Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada, ‘Just a Mess’ stood out. Gentle banjo plucking is sprinkled behind this playful and charming claymation. The use of a folding map to tackle…
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AniDox:Lab is the first ever workshop dedicated exclusively to the animated documentary genre. The deadline is extended to the 26th February 2014. You can find out more on the link below. We would love to hear from you if you participate! http://www.animwork.dk/en/anidox_lab.asp
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What a treat to see the latest animated documentary from Jonas Odell. “West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested on March 31, 1977. He was leading a group planning to kidnap politician Anna-Greta Leijon. A number of suspects were arrested in the days following. One of them was Kröcher’s ex-girlfriend, “A”. This is her story.” In this film…
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The enthusiasm, charm and simplicity of Benjamin Ames’ approach to explaining combustion to school kids is thoroughly enjoyable. Ames, a physics doctorial candidate at the University of Innsbruck, created this cartoon for the 2012 Flame Challenge, a competition set up by the Centre for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. Alan Alda, Hollywood actor turned…
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‘On Tuesday 4 February, Alec Finlay and Iain Gardner will premiere two new animated works that have been developed over the last year in a special, free event for World Cancer Day at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, London. Navigations is a project about the brain, cancer, and the respective approaches of medical science and…
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Image by Samantha Moore for Silent Signal. Animate! projects with the Wellcome Trust has commissioned six artist/scientist teams to put forward ideas for possible animated works under a project called Silent Signal. “Silent Signal explores how research into genetics, cell biology, immunology and epidemiology is advancing our understanding of how the human body communicates with…
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