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Animating the Inanimate | Anthropomorphism in Object Animation
Following on from our article on Men and Beasts: Anthropomorphism in Character Animation, we at Headstuff want to bring you a look at another aspect of anthropomorphic representation with this second part about everyday household objects…
Of Places | The Photography of Art Wolfe
There was snow on Yellowstone Park that day. Bushes reached out of the ground like clumps of tangled fingers and yellow winter-flowers bloomed in the grass. A grey sky hung low as if it were weighed down by the clouds, so that it blended…
What’s On | Visual Arts Events in August
Looking to pack in some last-minute summer fun this August? Check out these visual arts events taking place around the country this month!
Exhibitions:
Land(ed) | Group Exhibition
Lavit Gallery
1st - 31st August
Land(ed) is the title…
Cartoon Catch Up | Spongebob Squarepants
“Are ya ready, kids?”
“Aye Aye, Captain!”
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants, and he has done so for twenty years. First created by Stephen Hillenburg after a pilot in 1997, Spongebob Squarepants managed to swim…
Review | The Ocean Between @ Crawford Art Gallery
In The Ocean Between, Irish artist Marianne Keating looks at the emigration of Irish people to Barbados and Jamaica as indentured labourers in the 17th and 19th centuries and the impact these Irish immigrants had on these two countries. In…
Men and Beasts | Anthropomorphism in Character Animation
When the 1973 Robin Hood film was pitched at Disney, I can only assume that it went something like this:
“Okay, we want to make a Robin Hood film, so we have this idea.”
“Okay, but that’s been done before, but animated, it would be…
Art 3.0 | Monart.art Bringing Blockchain to the Art World
Malo Girod de l’Ain came to art in a roundabout way. A Parisian through and through, his aunt, Hélène Girod de l’Ain, was a famous artist and his parents’ home still hosts a number of delightful paintings. He enjoyed art as a hobby but…
Cartoon Catch Up | The World of David the Gnome
The World of David the Gnome, or David the Gnome as it is better known, is a gorgeous animated series from the late 80s. It was created by Spanish company, BRB Internacional, and distributed to the rest of the world in 1987 with an English…
Review | At Work by Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is an institution in photography – an iconic one at that. As of 2019, her career spans fifty years; no mean feat for any profession, let alone a creative pursuit. In this time she has documented everything from The Rolling…
From Panel to Screen | Adapting Comics to Animation
Comic Books, graphic novels; many of us like nothing more than to curl up with one after a long day and follow the adventures of our favourite superheroes. Often we look at these and we think, “That was incredible. I hope Marvel makes that…