Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

by Sharon Connell, Rosie Shepley, Olivia Weekes. This article will outline steps taken by University of Leeds Special Collections to assess the condition of animation artworks in the Leeds Animation Workshop archive and develop long-term preservation and storage solutions. The Leeds Animation Workshop Archive Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) is a women’s collective set up in …

Akira materials assembled by Joe Peacock With the financial support of ASIFA Hollywood, the Academy Archives now provides a permanent home for the largest private collection of Akira materials.

Collectors are often way ahead of the curve when it comes to pop culture materials whose significance is not always readily apparent.  Their foresight can lead them to the acquisition of items that will become quite valuable but every so often, we meet a collector who has the means to seek a way to keep …

Paint questionnaire: the results

Today we closed our questionnaire in which we asked Dutch animators about their experiences with paint on cels during and shortly after the production of the film. We received a total of 24 responses of which 18 had actually worked with cels and gave us some very insightful answers. 18 respondents is not enough to …

Buying and selling animation artwork a conversation with Hans Walther

Hans Walther is a  Dutch film maker and animation enthusiast. In the animation world he is known as the talk show host of the KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival. But Hans Walther is also one of the most important animation artwork collectors in the Netherlands. We talked with Hans Walther to learn more about the market …

Help, why did this paint get sticky? A questionnaire amongst animators

In the animation artwork collection of the EYE Film Museum, we regularly find cels with paint layers that were once sticky and are now stuck. In the stacks of animation artwork, these paint layers have glued themselves to other cels or adjacent papers. When you try to separate them, you run the risk of damaging …

Recognise this brand?

Today we found a fraction of a brand logo and a partial batch number on one of the self-adhesive films stuck on a cel. We found this beautiful color wheel between miscellaneous artwork by Gerrit van Dijk (1938 – 2012). It came without any context in a blank brown envelop. Luckily, the stripes in red, white …

Exhibiting Artwork The Animation of René Laloux in Chateau d'Annecy

Being one of the very few museums solely dedicated to the art of animation film in the world, the Musée du Film d’Animation in Annecy is of international importance. Animation artwork usually plays an important role in its exhibitions and the museum can be seen as a showcase for current views on the presentation of animation artwork. During the Festival of …