Ryan Pierson

Animation

 
 
 
 

New Media

 
 
 
 

History of Film Theory

 
 
 

Film-Philosophy

 
 
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book

Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics

A study of animation techniques and their philosophical significance. 

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article

Too Close, Not Blue: Yellow Submarine

An examination of the design of Yellow Submarine, the history of color in cartoons, and the privacy of pain.

 
 
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video

Perspectival Movement: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

A demonstration of how Caroline Leaf’s sand-on-glass animation technique combines a camera movement with a dissolve in The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977).

From Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, chapter three.