Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
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Posts Tagged: animation
Sound & Vision: Nicole Georges
Allyson McCabe talks with Nicole Georges, illustrator, zinester and educator, about her new book Fetch, how she got into the DIY punk scene, and family secrets.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet’s potential for visual artists.
...moreObviously the Work of Artists
Director Mark Osborne describes to Vulture how he adapted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince into an animated film: “When you’re reading the book, you’re told over and over again in the text, ‘These drawings aren’t very good,’ and you’re actually being tricked into imagining the reality Saint-Exupéry was trying to depict,” says Osborne.“There’s a charm to those […]
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Literature’s Future Is Interactive
Tech evangelicals believe that static, non-visual storytelling like books must evolve and adapt to continue to attractive audiences in the future. Kill Screen takes a look at some of these new types of literary storytelling, like Madefire’s digital storytelling app that features animation technology, and Tapas Media, which builds games around chapters.
...morePoetry in Motion
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Washington Post had ten designers create short animations to accompany excerpts of poems.
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Podcatcher #1: Oh No, Ross and Carrie!
In the first installment of our new column all about podcasts, we talk with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!.
...moreMeditating on Technology with Margaret Atwood
In a whimsical animated video by The Future of StoryTelling, the legendary Margaret Atwood explores the intersection of technology and storytelling. “I’ve always been interested in new things… I walk around in a state of wonder everyday. Everything is exciting,” Atwood says.
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Fresh Comics #5: Who is Lee Marrs?
That’ll be the name of the documentary that gets made when people learn to love Lee Marrs. Who is Lee Mars? Honestly, I don’t really know who she is. I’m sure I could ask her. I could actually call her on the phone.
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Nicole Antebi and Miki Golod
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
...more“The Failure of the Intended Story”
It’s not every day that The Rumpus finds itself immortalized in animation form. Contributor Yuvi Zalkow was so inspired by his recent interview with Thaisa Frank, he made a fantastic little short about it. We’re always happy to see art beget art, and we couldn’t be more thrilled about this. Watch Yuvi’s film “The Failure of […]
...moreThe Rumpus Review of Chico and Rita
There are certain places in the world that conjure an almost universal sense of longing; places that seem to carry a palpable sense of themselves in the air, and places whose tumultuous histories have created masses of displaced persons who feel as though they might never go home again.
...moreTales of Mere Existence: The Art of Lev Yilmaz
Levni Yilmaz is the creator of “Tales of Mere Existence,” a web based series of animated shorts that have evolved into a successful comic.
...moreThe Rumpus Review of 9
It must take guts to embark upon a film like 9, Shane Acker’s dark and thrilling feature-length version of his 2005 short film of the same name. Thick with paranoid dread and post-Apocalyptic atmosphere, 9 is a film with so many obvious antecedents
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