Animation Articles: March 22, 2020
A selection of the best animation articles including news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week beginning the 22nd of March, 2020.
Animation Articles: March 15, 2020
A selection of the best animation articles including news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week beginning the 15th of March, 2020.
Animation Articles 05-2020
A selection of the best animation news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week ending February 2nd, 2020.
Animation Articles 04-2020
A selection of the best animation news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week ending January 25th, 2020.
Animation Articles 03-2020
A selection of the best animation news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week ending January 11th, 2020.
Animation Articles 02-2020
A selection of the best animation news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week ending January 11th, 2020.
Animation Articles 01-2020
A selection of the best animation news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week ending January 4th, 2020.
Why Coco’s Award Dominance Is A Problem For the Industry
Pixar’s latest film Coco is being endowed with so many awards, they have their own Wikipedia page dedicated to tracking them all. It’s not all good news though. The film’s dominance highlights a concern that the industry is disconnecting from audiences in a potentially damaging way.
The Podcast: Episode 3 with Helen Haswell
In this month’s podcast, I chat with Helen Haswell. Helen is a PhD candidate at Queens University in Belfast, who’s area of research happens to be the merger of Disney and Pixar that took place back in 2006. We discuss that, and lots more in this episode. Just excuse the error in the opening; this […]
The Pixar Luster Has Worn Off, Leaving A Tarnished Studio Behind
Is this finally it? Has the last nail been hammered into the coffin of Pixar’s credibility? Long held in high esteem for the quality of their films, their unique NorCal-influenced approach to filmmaking, and the resulting highly artistic masterpieces that embodied the vision of a truly artistic and collaborative effort won them friends and admirers the world over. It would appear however, that a strong of sequels and the studios inclusion in the recent Silicon Valley scandal that ensnared many tech companies in the region, may finally put paid to Pixar’s esteemed reputation.
Does Pixar Really Have a Technological Advantage?
There’s an annual report called the Global Animation Industry Report: Strategies, Trends & Opportunities. I wrote about it last year, but since there’s a new report for 2014, I’m writing about it again. While the $5,000 price is a bit too steep for me, you can view the contents online for free, and that’s where one sub-heading picqued my interest: ‘Pixar’s Technological Advantage’. While that may have been true many years ago, does it still hold up?