Annabelle Honess Roe - Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion

Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations

Beyond Stop-motion

Annabelle Honess Roe

For Vanessa and Laurie

Jane Batkin is Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) Animation course in the School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln, and her teaching specialism is animation identity, culture and history. Her book Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body was published by Routledge in 2017.

Joseph Darlington is Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Digital Animation with Illustration at Futureworks Media School in Manchester, UK. He completed a PhD on experimental aesthetics in 2014, and his work has been published in journals from the Cambridge Review to Comedy Studies.

Malcolm Cook is Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. He has published a number of chapters and articles on animation, early cinema and their intermedial relationships. His book, Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. His recent and forthcoming work includes research into the use of music in Len Lyes British films, the role of technology in defining medium specificity and the place of singalong films in early cinema. He is co-editing (with Kirsten Thompson) a book on the relationships between animation and advertising.

Richard Haynes is Senior Lecturer in Animation Production at the Arts University, Bournemouth. He also works as a professional stop-motion animator. Credits include preschool television series, such as Little Robots, Fifi and the Flowertots, Rupert Bear and Postman Pat (at Cosgrove Hall Films). He is also a regular Animator at Aardman, where he has been involved with feature films, such as The Pirates!In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) and Early Man (2018) and the long-running television series Shaun the Sheep.

Christopher Holliday teaches Film Studies and Liberal Arts at Kings College London, specializing in animation, film genre, international film history and contemporary digital media. He has published several book chapters and articles on animated film, including work in Animation Practice, Process & Production and Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He is the author of The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Fantasy/Animation: Connections between Media, Mediums and Genres (Routledge, 2018).

Annabelle Honess Roe is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey. She has published on animation, documentary, British cinema and film genre in publications including Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and The Journal of British Cinema and Television. Her book Animated Documentary was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013 and won the Society for Animation Studies McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book (2015). She is co-editor of Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Animation Studies Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib is a researcher and Assistant Professor in Animation Studies at the Animation Department of Faculty of Cinema and Theatre, Tehran Art University, Iran. Her PhD thesis (UCA Farnham, UK, 2009) was on realism in Aardmans early short films, and her current interests include medium specificity in animation and the emerging forms and institutions of Iranian animation.

Laura Ivins is an independent scholar and film critic. She received her PhD from the Indiana University, and her articles have appeared in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and The Journal of Popular Culture.

Christopher Meir is a UC3M CONEX-Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Carlos III de Madrid. He has published extensively on film and television industries, including a monograph on Scottish Cinema (Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts), a co-edited collection on the producer (Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies) and numerous journal articles, book chapters and interviews with producers. He is currently completing a monograph on StudioCanal and its influence on the European and global film and television industries for Bloomsbury.

Nicholas Andrew Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola University Maryland. His areas of teaching and scholarly interest include film animation, early cinema, the intersections between modernist print and visual cultures, and twentieth-century Irish and British literature. He is currently at work on an interdisciplinary study of metamorphosis in modernist visual culture. He is the author of Modernism, Ireland, and the Erotics of Memory (Cambridge, 2002).

Alexander Sergeant is Lecturer in Film and Media Theory at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published work on fantasy cinema and popular animation in numerous journals and edited collections. He is the co-editer of Fantasy/Animation: Connections between Media, Medium and Genres (Routledge AFI Film Reader, 2018).

Linda Simensky is Head of PBS KIDS content, the public broadcaster in the United States. Before joining PBS, she was in charge of original animation for Cartoon Network, where she oversaw development and series production of The Powerpuff Girls, among others. She began her career at Nickelodeon, where she helped build the animation department and launch the popular series Rugrats, Doug and Rockos Modern Life. Simensky also teaches Animation History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Ward is Professor of Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. His main research interests are in the fields of animation and documentary film and television, animation pedagogy, production cultures, communities of practice and film and media historiography. Published work includes articles for the journals Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Animation Journal and the Historical Journal for Film, Radio and Television, as well as numerous anthology essays. He is also Series Co-Editor (with Caroline Ruddell) for the book series Palgrave Animation.

Thomas Walsh graduated from the European School of Classical Animation at Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin, in 1994. He has worked professionally as a special effects artist for the Walt Disney Feature Animation Studio, contributing to feature films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997) and Tarzan (1999). He subsequently gained a PhD from the Loughborough University School of Art and Design in 2009. He is currently Senior Lecturer in animation at the Arts University Bournemouth in the UK.

Paul Wells is Director of the Animation Academy at the Loughborough University. He has published widely in animation and film studies, including Understanding Animation (Routledge, 1998) and Animation, Sport and Culture (Palgrave, 2014). He is also an established writer and director for TV, film, radio and theatre and a scriptwriting consultant, based on his book Basics Animation 01: Scriptwriting (Bloomsbury, 2007), working with writers from The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants.

Aylish Wood is Professor of Animation and Film Studies at the University of Kent. She has published articles in Screen, New Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Games and Culture, Film Criticism and Animation:An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her books include Technoscience in Contemporary American Film (2002); Digital Encounters (2007) and