SMFA Animation

On Line: Drawing and Film January 12–February 6, 2011 In...

While watching The Automatic Moving Company , an animation by Émile Cohl circa 1910, I was immediately reminded of the anthropomorphism foun...

The animated image has had an expansive progression that continues to ride the current of technology. With...

a/v: '/\/\/\' (by Max Hattler + Noriko Okaku) from Max Hattler on Vimeo . Fredrikstad Animation Festival-commissioned live animati...

Scene from ' Pauvre Pierrot ' When you first hear the words “Early Cartoon” the first thing that may come to mind might be a fluent,...

When I first watched this short animation I believed that it was a piece of propaganda against the dangers of wine and absinthe. Although, t...

Winsor McCay's comic about a young boy named Nemo was introduced in 1905. The original title was Little Nemo in Slumberland, but was cha...

Turns out flip books are nothing new. In fact, the flip book much as we know it today appeared in 1868. An English lithograph printer, named...

I watched a few of McCay's cartoons again to day. I can just imagine how they must have amazed audiences back then. After taking Animati...

Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. © 2005 Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Museum of Moving Ima...

The Museum of the Moving Image , located in Queens NY, asked animation filmmaker Martha Colburn to come in to the Museum and create an ...

Image Source Research from: http://www.vegalleries.com/winsorbio.html One person from class today that I found particularly interesting ...