Animated Short Film Research Articles

스토리텔링에서의 조명과 배경음악의 역할 분석 -디즈니 단편 애니메이션 <페이퍼맨>을 중심으로

In 2013, Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film was granted to Walt Disney`s short animation, (2012). With various aspects of its excellence, I focus on the very effective use of digital lightings and underscores for storytelling as its success factors. In this respect, this paper aims at analyzing the roles of the visual factors, especially tone, contrast, etc. created by lightings, and audio factors, especially underscores, in the film`s story development. I find that can be characterized by the well-built story structure with distinct three acts. The main stream of the story is expressed with the overall mood that is created by the fine adjustments of brightness of the main light, and contrast. And the direction and the intensity of the lighting successfully describe the emotions of the characters in each scene. In addition, I find that properly chosen and positioned underscores make the development of the story more dynamic and more harmonized.

Clinical careers film.

Those interested in developing clinical academic careers might be interested in a short animated film by Health Education England (HEE) and the National Institute for Health Research. The three-minute film, a frame from which is shown below, describes the sort of opportunities that are on offer to all professionals as part of the HEE's clinical academic careers framework. You can view the film on YouTube at tinyurl.com/pelb95c.

Diabetes support

There are 3.2 million people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK and an estimated 630,000 people have the condition, but do not know it. Complications of diabetes can affect people’s lives and ongoing health status. Diabetes UK aims to care for, connect with and campaign alongside, and on behalf of, all people affected by and at risk of diabetes. A short animated film on the website explains what is happening in the body with diabetes, which nurses can recommend to patients to help understand the condition. The link for professionals is useful for practitioners involved in providing care, with information on the competencies required.

The democracy of colour

The evolution of the technical reproduction of colour in film has been categorised and studied in great detail. The aesthetic use of expressive colour has not had as much attention historical. Vacche and Price’s Color: The Film Reader seemed to spark a critical interest in this area. In this article, writing as a practising cinematographer, I outline a brief history of the discussions of the use of colour in film, examine two significant attempts to define a colour theory for film, Kalmus and Storaro, and then discuss in detail my own practice in this area. The article concentrates on The Sleeping-Mat Ballad, a project commissioned by the Welsh National Opera (WNO) and The Space, and the short animation film The Separation. In both these films I explore the expressive use of colour, as a function of the cinematographer.

Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, millions of theatergoers, students, and industrial workers saw one or more animated short films, shot in Technicolor and running eight to nine minutes, that were designed to build public support for the principles and practices of free enterprise. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation quietly funded the production of this series of cartoons, titledFun and Facts about American Business, through multiple grants to industrial animation house John Sutherland Productions via Harding College, an evangelical college in rural Arkansas that would become known nationally for its anti-communist and conservative political activism. This article examines the creation and distribution of theFun and Factsfilms in the years 1946 through 1952 as a notable case of ephemeral film and as an example of the Cold War public relations movement known as “economic education.” Further, the article examines the consequences of economic education as a conceptual category on the production and distribution of Cold War industrial propaganda.

War Poems: A Transgression of Objective and Linear Imagery towards the Avant-garde in Animation

From a painter’s perspective, 3D stereo animation provides a fresh method of intensifying and isolating a pictorial space while conveying an illusion of a “real” notion of space and time. The resulting animated painting appears to share its physical space with the viewer. This paper describes the making of “Elysian Fields,” a 3D animated experimental short film that commemorates WWII. It aesthetically and philosophically examines the effect of the representational and abstract qualities of animation and their ability to convey a narrative. This paper will reflect on an art form that has resulted from cross?media exchanges between new media painting and stereoscopic 3D animation. The film’s extremely naturalistic figurative animation visually occupies a contradictory space in relation to the narratives told through surreal and abstract painting. Earlier abstract films by the author influenced the creation of the surreal war film and played a significant role in the structure of the narrative. Furthermore, Elysian Fields was adapted and calibrated for display on various 3D display systems, from large-scale immersive cinematic spaces to an immersive 320˚ theatre at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Ars Electronica’s Deep Space and gallery space installation. Winner of a number of accolades, including multiple “Best Animated 3D Short Film” awards, the film competed with another 56 films for the 86th Academy Awards Qualifying Screening Entry. (http://www.elysianfieldsfilm.com/)

Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, millions of theatergoers, students, and industrial workers saw one or more animated short films, shot in Technicolor and running eight to nine minutes, that were designed to build public support for the principles and practices of free enterprise. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation quietly funded the production of this series of cartoons, titled Fun and Facts about American Business, through multiple grants to industrial animation house John Sutherland Productions via Harding College, an evangelical college in rural Arkansas that would become known nationally for its anti-communist and conservative political activism. This article examines the creation and distribution of the Fun and Facts films in the years 1946 through 1952 as a notable case of ephemeral film and as an example of the Cold War public relations movement known as “economic education.” Further, the article examines the consequences of economic education as a conceptual category on the production and distribution of Cold War industrial propaganda.

From unwanted pregnancy to safe abortion: Sharing information about abortion in Asia through animation

Although unsafe abortion continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality in many countries in Asia, the right to safe abortion remains highly stigmatized across the region. The Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, a regional network advocating for safe abortion, produced an animated short film entitled From Unwanted Pregnancy to Safe Abortion to show in conferences, schools and meetings in order to share knowledge about the barriers to safe abortion in Asia and to facilitate conversations on the right to safe abortion. This paper describes the making of this film, its objectives, content, dissemination and how it has been used. Our experience highlights the advantages of using animated films in addressing highly politicized and sensitive issues like abortion. Animation helped to create powerful advocacy material that does not homogenize the experiences of women across a diverse region, and at the same time emphasize the need for joint activities that express solidarity.

모델링 공정 연계 시스템을 통한 효율적 폴리곤 모델링 기법에 대한 탐구

3D 컴퓨터 애니메이션의 모델링 작업과정은 사실적 형태 구현을 위한 최적의 작업조건에 대한 방법들이 진일보되고 있다. 1999년 출시된 모델링 전문 소프트웨어인 ZBrush는 기존과 다른 용이한 제작방식으로 인해, 캐릭터 모델 작업에 있어서 필수요소로 자리 잡고 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 보다 최적화된 애니메이션 캐릭터 모델 제작을 위한 방법으로써 두 개의 소프트웨어 (Z-Brush, Maya)의 연계된 제작시스템에 대한 효율성에 대해 고찰하고, 그 시사점을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위해, 첫째 폴리곤 모델링과 리토폴로지(retopology)에 대한 기술적 특성에 대해 살펴보았으며, 둘째, 이를 바탕으로, 기존의 캐릭터 모델링을 위한 ZBrush와 Maya의 연계적 작업 과정의 문제점을 분석한다. 셋째, 새로운 모델링 작업의 최적화 기법의 효율성을 검증하기 위해, 단편 애니메이션 영화 'Cula & Mina'의 Dumvee 캐릭터의 제작과정을 사례로 하여 그 제작과정을 분석하였다. 본 연구를 통해, 두 개의 소프트웨어를 이용한 모델링 공정 연계 시스템은 보다 효과적으로 하이 폴리곤(high polygon) 모델에 대한 제작의 용이함과 높은 완성도를 구현할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이를 통해, 기존과 다른 효율적 모델링 방식을 고찰함으로써, 모델링 관련 수업이나 관련 산업체의 제작 시스템의 최적화를 위한 참고자료가 되리라 사료된다. 또한, 본 연구는 폴리곤 모델링 제작과정의 개선을 위한 '실용적 대안 제시'를 목적으로 하는 기술제작 사례논문으로 접근하였다. In the modeling processes of 3D computer animation, methods to build optimal work conditions to realize real forms for more efficient works have been advanced. Digital sculpting software, published in 1999, ZBrush has been positioned as an essential factor in character model work requiring of realistic descriptions through different manufacturing methods from previous modeling work processes and easy shape realization. Their functional areas are expanding. So, in this production case paper, as a method to product more optimized animation character models, the efficiency of production method linking digital sculpting software (Z-Brush) and animation production software (Maya) was deliberated and its consequences and implications are suggested. To this end, first the technical features of polygon modeling and Retopology were reviewed. Second, based on it, the efficiency of animation character modeling work processes through step linking ZBrush and Maya suggested in this paper was analyzed. Third, based on the features drawn before, in order to prove the hypothesis on modeling optimization method suggested in this paper, the production process of character Dumvee from a short animation film, 'Cula & Mina' was analyzed as an example. Through this study, it was found that technical approach easiness and high level of completion could be realized through two software linked work processes. This study is considered to be a reference for optimizing production process of related industries or modeling-related classes by deliberating different modeling process linked systems.

Animation in Context: The Outcome of Targeted Transmedia Authorship

My research concerns design styles and aims to determine how visual, sound, and interactive elements in game design influence the game’s appeal. In particular, I examine the development of the transmedia narrative experience across multiple digital formats and its implications concerning independent animation production for entertainment. The case study we present in this paper investigates the construction of interactive games that are designed utilizing comical characters. We also explore authorship techniques that support the creation of animated web-based episodic short films with, in this case, a set of short movies that further delineate the story through a direct playback narrative. “Barty” and “the Pirate,” as game characters, help the user to explore the digital world in which they live through direct interaction in an “endless runner” mobile game. With this overall approach, we are investigating the impact of “comical short-form animated filmmaking with a game counterpart” on the broader marketplace, seeking to find a market share in an intensely crowded field.

The Making of a Queer Latina Cartoon: Pedagogies of Border, Body, and Home

The focus of this article is creation of film Tomboy, an animated short film that explores issues of gender independent children, bullying, and Latina representation. Connections between Chicana feminist theory and making and screening of Tomboy are highlighted as strategic approaches for critical pedagogy. In particular, author investigates how cartoon employs notion of border pedagogies, the body as pedagogical device, and pedagogies of home.

Steampunk Poe

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New Vistas? Aboriginal animation and digital dreams at the National Film Board of Canada

This paper argues that Canada's National Film Board (NFB) is moving away from its commitment to Aboriginal media production to focus on its global reputation as a leader in digital media. A case study of animated short films from the 2009 ‘Vistas’ series by Aboriginal film-makers highlights the NFB's changing priorities. Made for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, this series of films is decidedly apolitical in comparison to other Aboriginal films made at the NFB. Rather than facilitating cultural regeneration or challenging national identity, as did the films of the Indian Film Crew in the 1960s, the Vistas series serves to commodify Aboriginal culture and promote Canada as a cosmopolitan destination for businesses and tourists.

Bogotá: imaginarios de ciudad en tres obras animadas

There isn’s any city without a path. Three animated short films present different views about Bogotá as a complex and diverse city of intersections. While the films capture the ordinary sights and the contradictory visions that define this urban landscape "”as the space of daily experience"”, it is also possible to find in these animated images a city as an organic and dynamic element, which essence remains open to new gazes.

Affordances of an App

In a relatively short time, apps have become highly popular as a platform for children’s fiction. The majority of media attention to these apps has focused on their technical features. There has been less focus on their aesthetic aspects, such as how interactive elements, visual-verbal arrangements and narration are interrelated. This article investigates how a reading of a «picturebook app» may differ from readings of the narratives found in printed books and movies. The discussion will be anchored in an analysis of the iPad app The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore . This app, which is an adaptation of an animated short film, relates the story of a book lover who becomes the proprietor of a magical library. Keywords: children apps; adaptation; remediation; aesthetic; affordance; interactive fiction; iPad; augmented reality (Published: 12 March 2014) Citation: Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics, Vol. 5 , 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/blft.v5.24169

The Spanish Animated Short Film at the Turn of the Century

The turn of the century brought a profound transformation in the production of Spanish animation, with recent films in this genre achieving greater international visibility. In this context, the short film, which represents the most personal and flexible format in filmmaking, has become a valuable resource worth protecting, because it opens a window onto a different aesthetic from that of big international productions and offers a representative picture of Spanish animation in recent decades. This article seeks to identify the key concepts framing the animated short film made in Spain and to analyse the function of the short film before and after the turn of the century.

Animated films of 'Neoplanta film' as a collateral damage of great transport

The paper gives a more detailed insight into the less known information about a debacle of the film Great Transport (Veliki transport) by Veljko Bulajić, due to which, to cover some of their outstanding debts to their foreign co-producers, the production company 'Neoplanta film' sold in secret the copyrights for animated films by Borislav Šajtinac, Zoran Jovanović, Nikola Rudić and Radivoje Ivanović; by the authors who nowadays represent the pillar of the development of Serbian animated film. Six important short animated films, made in Novi Sad in the early 70s, along with three full-length feature films, were used to shamelessly cover these outstanding liabilities of 'Neoplanta film' toward one of the co-producers of the film Great Transport, the company 'Laterna Editrice' from Rome.

The making of The Rose of Turaida

Abstract This article documents the making of Ryan Grobins’ second animated short film, The Rose of Turaida.

Christmas satire on Swedish television: Christopher’s Christmas Mission

Abstract The short subject argues that the short animated film, Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton/Christopher’s Christmas Mission, which is screened annually on Swedish public service television to the delight of around a million spectators, offers sharp satire criticizing lingering class inequalities in the 1970s, despite decades of Social Democratic rule.

Animating experience

The imperative for participation in social work education has led to consideration of the ways in which service users’ and carers’ voices can best be heard by students. At Glyndŵr University, this debate has resulted in the development of a service user and carer-led module which will introduce students to a variety of creative approaches as a way of telling narratives of experience. In preparation for the module, a pilot project was run to assess the particular benefits of using animation for this purpose. This reflective case study describes the experiences of a social work student who worked with a carer to make a short animated film. It articulates the ways in which theoretical teaching was brought to life by working intensively. It demonstrates that creative approaches can offer a constructive means of addressing the need to cater for diverse learning styles. In addition, it adds weight to the argument that service users’ and carers’ experiential knowledge should be taken as seriously as other forms of knowledge.