Benjamin Pinsent Benjamin Pinsent is a third-year PhD student at the University of East Anglia with a special interest in special effects. His Thesis is entitled Examined by the Light of the Moon: Comparing and Contrasting Critical and Production Reception of Practical Creature Effects in the films of Rick BakerIt is a historical materialist study …
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UPDATE Programme for ‘Bringing Legacy to Life’ Stop Motion Conference – April 29-30th 2021
2020 was a legacy year for animation in Edinburgh – the National Galleries of Modern Art, began to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legend, Ray Harryhausen and at Edinburgh College of Art, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the animation programme. Though different in scope and scale, they are connected by a passion for …
UPDATE Registration Now Open for ‘Bringing Legacy to Life’ Stop Motion Conference – April 29-30th 2021
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our ‘Bringing Legacy to Life’ (online) Stop Motion Conference! Tickets are limited and include a small fee of £10, which will give delegates access to all panels, keynotes and special events. Note: registration closes on the 15th of April. Full details of the programme …
Seminar series: ‘(Animation) Practice makes perfect’ – Dr Lynn Love
Wednesday 24th March, 4-5pm, Dr Lynn Love discusses Animating Play: Choreographing physical player movement in analogue and video game design . This talk will discuss the design strategies behind the production of alternative video games and analogue play installations created by Love, focusing on how the design of play can animate the player. Each of the works …
Seminar series: ‘(Animation) Practice makes perfect’ – Ellie Land
Wednesday 17th March, 4-5pm, Ellie Land presents an overview of her award winning film Bathroom Priviledges. Three stories of denied access and exclusion, bringing to light society’s views on disability, gender and race in the most intimate spaces. Establishing the public bathroom as a stimulus for investigation, the politics of sharing are examined through the …
UPDATE ‘Bringing Legacy to Life’ Stop Motion Conference – April 29-30th 2021
March Update While we are busy building the main schedules for our paper panels over the two days, we are delighted to be able to provide some updates. We can confirm the dates as Thursday 29th and Friday 30th April. We also have two amazing keynote events to announce! Our opening event will be ‘Re-Animating …