Celebrating the Art, Craft and Business of Animation https://www.awn.com/ en-US 15 Fri, 05 May 2023 13:25:04 -0700 Fri, 05 May 2023 13:34:07 -0700 https://www.awn.com/blog/kneading-bread-and-ai Exploring Alex Boya’s world making, Zombie bread baking, and animation process. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/kneading-bread-and-ai Fri, 05 May 2023 13:25:04 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/i-wanted-walk-out-kantors-letter-pig-not-what-you-think Some narrative animations owe their brilliance to simultaneously evoking pleasure and angst.  Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/i-wanted-walk-out-kantors-letter-pig-not-what-you-think Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:10:47 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/animator-scientist Philippe Vaucher tackles nine old men. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/animator-scientist Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:41:51 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/it-takes-your-breath-away Heard any good films lately? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/it-takes-your-breath-away Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:59:03 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/elizabeth-sees How we often see the bigger picture. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/elizabeth-sees Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:02:29 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/judgment-day What neuroscience tells us about how we judge animations (or how ‘Blind Vaysha’ got it right). Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/judgment-day Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:39:59 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/going-full-steam-gary-schwartz The intrepid animator, artist, educator and international vagabond just got out of prison. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/going-full-steam-gary-schwartz Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:21:23 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/can-we-talk What’s on your mind right now? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/can-we-talk Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:58:24 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/evil-problem-solving Animation – vanquishing evil one problem at a time. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/evil-problem-solving Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:51:37 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/juggling-and-art-team-based-animation Mine! Mine! Mine? Studying collaborative filmmaking dynamics at the heart of Hothouse 11, the NFB's English Animation Studio Apprenticeship Program. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/juggling-and-art-team-based-animation Wed, 04 May 2016 16:08:51 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/eranos-food-thought Before there was TED, there was Eranos. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/eranos-food-thought Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:33:45 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/wayne-s-world Sketching is transformational Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/wayne-s-world Wed, 25 Nov 2015 5:37:14 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/joy-animation What’s joy got to do with it? Is joy just a second-hand emotion? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/joy-animation Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:10:03 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/not-so-silent-lambs The flock of ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie’ have a way with(out) words. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/not-so-silent-lambs Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:43:32 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/thinking-outloud-open-love-letter-inside-out-team What should have been an easy review ended up not being so easy. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/thinking-outloud-open-love-letter-inside-out-team Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:16:02 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/gob-smacked-some-lines Seductive details or artistic mastery? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/gob-smacked-some-lines Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:07:06 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/go-your-strength Words of helpful encouragement might be really bad advice. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/go-your-strength Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:30:52 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/awards-animation-deserve In a world where animation is reality, how would animated characters judge the best of filmed narratives? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/awards-animation-deserve Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:32:01 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/myth-split-brain Are you a left brain or right brain person? If you’re an animator, you don’t get to choose. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/myth-split-brain Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:44:49 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/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. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/spoiler-alerts Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:10:21 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/baymax-after-your-job What if Baymax decides to put down his stethoscope and get into storyboarding instead? Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/baymax-after-your-job Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:04:31 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/zombie-attack-or-how-hiring-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. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/zombie-attack-or-how-hiring-artist-can-save-your-life Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:07:25 PST Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/folman-s-uncanny-valley That disturbing feeling you get when something familiar suddenly appears strange or “off?” Psychologists call this the “uncanny.” Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/folman-s-uncanny-valley Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:41:55 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/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. Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/four-f-s-and-other-animated-truths Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:45:47 PDT Lines of Thought https://www.awn.com/blog/riding-car-boys-and-toys-and-few-actors After 10 years and 20,000 miles of chauffeuring Hollywood actors on Montreal shoots, Steven Woloshen wins at OIAF with '1000 Plateaus.' Janet Blatter https://www.awn.com/blog/riding-car-boys-and-toys-and-few-actors Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:21:23 PDT Lines of Thought