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Animation is "not the art of making pictures that move but the art of movements that are drawn" (Norman McLaren). Currently, on the world wide web, a renaissance of animation is taking place. Due to the novelty of the field, there is no academic research on animation on the net yet. We try to provide a first scanning of the field and eventually hope to separate the wheat from the chaff. This page contains a detailed link-list, several reviews of portals but also theoretical questions on the history, aesthetics and types of animation as well as a forum.
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Presentation of Machinima at the Games Convention Leipzig has been a great success

For this year’s GC (Games Convention), the GC joined forces with the research project “Animation in New Media” to present a machinima gallery and two machinima workshops to show how creative you can be with computer games.
Machinima are animated films made by using computer game software. The term “machinima” is an invented word combining “machine” and “animation”. In the Games Art section at the fair, the comfortable Machinima Lounge provided relaxed viewing of the best machinima films, whilst the two-day workshops each gave 20 participants an opportunity to produce their own film in the computer game The Movies.

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» impressions in our blog
» press release by Leipziger Messe