The Crafty Animator

In September I'll be presenting a paper at The Crafty Animator: A Conference on Handmade and Craft-based Animation. My paper is titled: Fingerprints: autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animated documentary.

The conference will be held at the Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch, London on Thursday 7 September 2017. If you would like to attend please contact Dr Caroline Ruddell - caroline.ruddell@brunel.ac.uk.

FULL PROGRAMME BELOW

9: Coffee and registration

9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Address

Dr Birgitta Hosea (Title tbc) (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell) 

10.30 – 12: Panel 1 (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell)

Giving Computer Animation the Finger (or, the importance of Ed Catmull’s hands) – Dr Christopher Holliday (King’s College London)

Zoetropes and Automata: The handcraft story of digital fabrication – Dr Tanya Marriott (Massey University, New Zealand)

Handmade Aesthetics in Animation for Adults and Children – Dr Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton

12 – 1: Lunch

1 – 2.30: Panel 2 (chair tbc)

‘Do my fingermarks matter?’ - Sally Pearce (independent animator)

A Hand-Crafted Digital Drawing Application – Jeremy Radvan (University of Brighton)

Fingerprints: autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animated documentary – Carla MacKinnon (Arts University Bournemouth)

2.30 – 4: Panel 3 (chaired by Dr Chris Holliday)

Materialising the Imagination: Live-Action Puppetry Meets Fantasy Fiction in Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal – Dr Alex Sergeant (Kings College London)

The puppet-puppeteer: self-reflexivity and self-recognition in puppet animation - Vincenzo Maselli (Sapienza University of Rome)

'It's Alive!' The appropriate uncanniness of stop-motion animated horror films for children – Dr Catherine Lester (University of Warwick)

4 – 4.20: Break

4.20 – 5.40: Panel 4 (chaired by Dr Ewan Kirkland)

The Reception of Lotte Reiniger in the German Press – Katharina Boeckenhoff, Manchester University

Sponsored silhouettes - the handmade advertisements of Lotte Reiniger – Tashi Petter (Queen Mary University of London)

Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving: The Finnish Cutout Animation in the 1960s and 1970s - Tuula Leinonen Aalto University

5.40: Final remarks and close

Upcoming paper at SAS Conference 2017

I'll be presenting a paper at the upcoming Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference. 

My paper will be on Production challenges in animated documentary and will focus on animated documentary's position at boundary points between different communities of practice, and how this can negatively impact production. 

The conference takes place July 3-7, 2017. in Padova, Italy. The full conference schedule can be found at this link.

2016 Ecstatic Truth videos online

With the 2017 Ecstatic Truth animated documentary symposium approaching, RCA Animation have shared videos of last year's presentations. These include a keynote from Paul Ward as well as a paper presented by me on approaches to authenticity in animated documentary, with a focus on abstract stop-motion work. You can see all the videos here.