Animation

Video Essays

Studio LAIKA and the Ghosts of Invisible Labor

One Reason Avatar’s Characters Feel So Real

The trick that made animation realistic

Pokémon Trainer Ambience

No Face Is An Incel

Speed Racer, Cel Animation, and Animetism

Sergei Eisenstein’s Theory of Animation: Plasmatic Disney

The Two Worlds of Wolfwalkers

Persepolis

Moonrise Kingdom \ Peter Pan

Cinderella +++

Chinese Animation: In Search of a Style

A very rare bear

The Real Fake Cameras Of Toy Story 4

How stop motion animation began

The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons

Fairytales of Motion

The first movie with CGI

Sound in Hanna-Barbera

The Pure Necessity

Studio Ghibli East Meets West

Terry Gilliam’s Credit Sequences

The Case of the CGI Bunnies

Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling

Miyazaki Dreams of Flying

Studio Ghibli in Real Life

Ghibli Influence on Disney

Disney Recycled Animation

Lego Movie

Why Framing Matters

Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space

Metalepses in Animation