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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Stop-Motion Animation"”.
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Moving Sculptures: Animating the Human Body in Stop-Motion WithPolymer Clay
… of this thesis is to explore novel approaches to stop-motion animation techniques and design and sculpt an original moveable clay figure utilizing those techniques. This thesis focuses on animating human anatomy, testing the extreme physical and emotional states that can be portrayed within the …
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Pilgrim
… The principal method used in this project is stop-motion animation which helped me link the idea of the animated objects as the Zizekian undead to Kristeva's reading of the immigration experience. It thus has allowed me to foreground the main intention behind this project: namely, to …
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Engagement Paper for the Animated Film MASK
Mask is a stop motion animation film that aims to discuss the impact of emigration on the newcomer as a subject within established societies. The story takes place within an imagined setting, in which a mask is the only official signifier of one’s identity. However, the story still reflects my …
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… also presented a visual life of things in early stop-motion animation films around 1910 as well as in the experimental films of the 1920s avant-garde. In contrast to nineteenth-century theories on the subjective, psychological origins of animistic experience, literature and film after 1900 …
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The Body, Touch and The Clay in Motion
… materiality behind the artistic mediums used in stop-motion animation. I specifically focus on various kinds of clay employing the methods of puppet-making, figural modelling, set building and animating in an attempt to bridge the disconnect and deformities of communication and elicit an embodied …
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The Enchanted Image: The Transforming Imagination of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through Material Practice and Media Technology
… magic lantern presentations, films and stop-motion animations. I argue that these mediations were influenced by contemporaneous material practices and media technologies, and that these mediations, in their various forms, reflected and influenced the public’s imagination regarding the …
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… film Alice, utilizes the effects of puppetry and stop-motion animation in order to create a Wonderland of defamiliarized objects characterized by the Todorovian fantastic. Finally, in the third chapter, I argue that, in his 2010 adaptation of Carroll’s Alice stories, Tim Burton, rather than …
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Lumensecity: Objects Illuminated in Time
… in 4-Dimensions (time) in the form of animations and short films. The content and context of these works have interwoven but their presentations remained polarized. In my masterʼs studies I have attempted to synergize the mediums of my artworks in order to achieve more realized and …
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Everted Sanctuaries: Increments of Silence
Eversion is a biological term for the ability of an organism to turn itself inside out. For example, a sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to distract attacking predators. The sea cucumber sacrifices some vital functions for ultimate survival. Similarly, many introverts have become adept at …