Sophia the Robot, created by Dr. David Hanson and his team of artists, AI programmers and engineers at Hanson Robotics, sends a warm welcome to USC animation faculty and students. Sophia embraces the creation of the new MFA in Expanded Animation: Research + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts.
It has been two years since XA Adunct Associate Professor Musa Brooker was named creative director at L.A.-based animation studio Six Point Harness. His career in both stop-motion and 2D animation has included some of the most acclaimed animation projects of the past two decades. Read the Animation Magazine interview here.
Award-winning animator and recently retired XA Professor Emerita, Christine Panushka, explains how she created her latest experimental animation in this interview with Animation Magazine. Hand-drawn and hand-colored over the course of several years, the film uses imagery of blood cells, bones, knots, lace, trees, roots and handwritten text, to poetically delve into the intimate connections created by a rare disease between generations of women.
Raqi Syed BA ’98, MFA’03 is an immersive media artist, visual effects designer, and faculty member at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.In this interview with SCA, she recalls the impact that XA Prof. Kathy Smith’s Expanded Animation class had on her perspectives and career. “Animation, more than even live-action, [has] never stopped expanding.”
Four animations by XA Professor and animator Kathy Smith, were recently featured in the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10). This retrospective of Australian animation is rich with stories of how to navigate through time and space, reimagine histories and explore connections to culture and place.
In March, Professor Emerita Christine Panushka served on the Jury for the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival in Ann Arbor Michigan. The Jury watched 10 features, 12 competition programs, and gave out 24 awards. Panushka also screened her recent animated feature film “Blood of the Family Tree.”
In January, XA Adjunct Professor Sam Gurry presented, “Teddy Bears and Little Friends: the films of “Nanny” Lynn Ochberg” for Los Angeles Filmforum at 2220 Arts + Archives. Ochberg created her “digital realism” animations 30 years ago using a Commodore Amiga. Following the screening, Sam hosted a Q&A with Ochberg.
XA Adjunct Professor Norland Telléz’s long friendship with fellow CalArts graduate Mia Theodoratus (New York based composer and classical harpist, Professor at Sarah Lawrence College) is crystalizing into a creative collaboration – a short experimental animation which translates Sappho’s poetry into modern images inspired by Greek mythology.
Sophia the Robot, created by Dr. David Hanson and his team of artists, AI programmers and engineers at Hanson Robotics, sends a warm welcome to USC animation faculty and students. Sophia embraces the creation of the new MFA in Expanded Animation: Research + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts.
Sophia the Robot, created by Dr. David Hanson and his team of artists, AI programmers and engineers at Hanson Robotics, sends a warm welcome to USC animation faculty and students. Sophia embraces the creation of the new MFA in Expanded Animation: Research + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts.
It has been two years since XA Adunct Associate Professor Musa Brooker was named creative director at L.A.-based animation studio Six Point Harness. His career in both stop-motion and 2D animation has included some of the most acclaimed animation projects of the past two decades. Read the Animation Magazine interview here.
Award-winning animator and recently retired XA Professor Emerita, Christine Panushka, explains how she created her latest experimental animation in this interview with Animation Magazine. Hand-drawn and hand-colored over the course of several years, the film uses imagery of blood cells, bones, knots, lace, trees, roots and handwritten text, to poetically delve into the intimate connections created by a rare disease between generations of women.
Raqi Syed BA ’98, MFA’03 is an immersive media artist, visual effects designer, and faculty member at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.In this interview with SCA, she recalls the impact that XA Prof. Kathy Smith’s Expanded Animation class had on her perspectives and career. “Animation, more than even live-action, [has] never stopped expanding.”
Four animations by XA Professor and animator Kathy Smith, were recently featured in the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10). This retrospective of Australian animation is rich with stories of how to navigate through time and space, reimagine histories and explore connections to culture and place.
