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Notes from the Underground Part Six — From Mary Ellen Bute to Pierre Hébert, Animation in a Different Key!

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
In this final installment of articles exploring animation as commercial entertainment and as an art form, Jean Detheux heralds a group of animators who listened to their own music and delivered it up on the animated screen.

Notes from the Underground Part Five — Escaping Muybridge's Curse (Can We?)

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
Jean Detheux continues his series on the nature of art and draws us to understand that perhaps mimicking reality isn't a true representation of the world.

Notes from the Underground Part Four — Knowing Enough About Seeing To Let

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
Jean Detheux continues his series on the nature of art. This month he discusses approaching reality and its representation through art aware of our predetermined notions. In other words…he takes a look at looking.

Notes from the Underground Part Three — Drawing, Without Knowing (Or, The Art in the Doodle)

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
While many of us believe drawing is knowledge based, Jean Detheux explores how venturing beyond this "given" opens up an entire new realm of paradoxes, dilemmas and ultimately success.

Notes from the Underground Part Two — Highjacking Animation (And Taking It Back!)

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
Jean Detheux returns to look at the path animation has strayed onto — a linear, non-experimental path — and discusses why and how we should try to bring it back onto the road leading to Art.

Notes from the Underground Part One — Animation: Prozac or Kyosaku?

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: DigitalNotes
Jean Detheux begins a series of articles that will explore animation as (commercial) entertainment and animation as an art form. In this first installment Jean discusses how we should approach "the real" as the unknown, and not take it for granted.