Category: Interactive

  • WATCH ONLINE: Animate Projects’ Accelerate Session, exploring the role of animation in a range of contemporary non-fiction creative storytelling contexts. The panel was hosted by Carla MacKinnon and included: journalist, filmmaker, and VR/AR pioneer, Nonny de la Peña; animator and director Samantha Moore; and producer Rebecca Mark Lawson.

  • The Animation Workshop (home to ANIDOX lab), is for the second year running their new initiative – the ANDOX:VR Award and Exhibition. The Awards include a cash prize and a residency grant for the development of new work. The 2019 awards included five projects in competition and one project out of competition. This review will focus…

  • ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ by Numinous Games

    Ryan Green’s infant son, Joel, is dying from cancer. A developer of apps and indi-games by trade, Ryan and his wife Amy have chose to tackle their active sorrow head-on by creating a game about their son’s life and suffering. Initially funded by a successful KickStarter campaign, the game launched on the 12th January 2016.…

  • 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…

  • “An inspirational conference lab on the current trends of new media providing access to new information, intense networking and individual support for transmedia projects linked to documentary or animation. Friday & Saturday, 1 & 2 November 2013 The DOK Leipzig Net Lab 2013 is a two part conference lab open for transmedia creatives, thinkers and…

  • An interesting new scheme which partners academics with creative companies to develop new documentary ideas: ‘Future Documentary Sandbox will ask how can we hold on to what is great about documentary – its ability to elicit empathy, impart wisdom and inspire change – whilst exploring the new forms that are enabled by the internet, mobile…

  • The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TVO launch The Next Day, a groundbreaking interactive animated documentary constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. http://thenextday.nfb.ca/#/thenextday