Welcome to Materials in Motion 2021. With lockdowns continuing throughout the world we still believe it is important for our global community to regularly catch up and share news, information and practices in our field. With this in mind Cosgrove Hall Films Archive, Creative Industries Trafford, EYE Filmmuseum, Manchester Animation Festival and Musées d’Annecy have …
We are happy to present the programme of the Materials in Motion Manchester Meeting (1 & 2 November). For more information on the Symposium check out the Manchester Meeting page. For more information about how to purchase tickets you can visit the website of the venue: Waterside Arts in Sale (Greater Manchester). Materials in Motion …
In 2017 Steve Henderson completed a PhD research into animation archiving. His research looked into the creation of a system of archive management for animation materials and British children’s television animation, at Loughborough University, UK. One of his observations was that the important actors working with animation artwork collections do not talk to each other …
Throughout our research project we experienced a lot of enthusiasm and willingness to share ideas and experiences about animation artwork preservation. Now, after we consulted many different experts and visited several archives, we are looking forward to bring some of these experts and representatives of these archives together in a joint meeting at Eye. The …
Do you have animation artwork in your collection? Then we would like to know about it! Questionnaire If you have animation artwork in your collection, please let us know and fill in this short questionnaire It will take you no more than five minutes. We will communicate our findings to all of you …
The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is a worldwide network of animation scholars. At the recent SAS conference at the University of Padua the importance of animation preservation was widely recognized: many scholars use animation films and archives for research in one form or another. In the presentations of historian Donald Crafton and preservation specialist Ron …
At the upcoming Society for Animation Studies Conference at Padova University, 3-7 July 2017, Mette Peters will take part in a panel about Animation Archives, together with Jim Walker (lecturer) and Rebekah Taylor (archivist). Walker and Taylor are both affiliated with the University for the Creative Arts (UK) guardian of the Bob Godfrey Archive. While …
In the 70s and 80s Dutch filmmakers Jacques Verbeek and Karin Wiertz experimented with a wide variety of animation techniques and materials. Read more about the artwork collection at the EYE filmmuseum website.
