Before Cinema there was animation. Students will be introduced to the history of animation that is multicultural and diverse spanning thousands of years.
Welcome to Animation World History!
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How to use our Blog
Here is an introduction to how to get approved and use the blog system. First, click on the link on the far right called: Register. (see image on the left) After registering, I will approve you for the blog. You will be able to edit blog posts, add comments to other people’s blog posts and…
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Ohara Hale
No, i’m unsure if we are related Ohara Hale is a Self-taught, multidisciplinary artist. Although she was born in Hollywood, she spent her formative years in the Midwest. She loves to write, paint, and dance. She has a particular affinity for writing children’s books. Her work on the music video Philémon Chante – Je te…
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Ella Dobson
Ella Dobson is an animator and designer born in New Zealand! She’s worked in a lot of different places, mainly big cities like LA and she’s currently working in NYC She has a website: https://elladobson.com/About She actually worked a lot for google and stuff, she has a lot of graphic design and minimalistic animations that…
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Lottie Kingslake
Lottie Kingslake is an animator and creative director based in Bristol, UK. She specifically makes mostly commercial work for clients, informational + narrative animation and more experimental animations. Her work tends to be colorful and layered, almost looking like a collage. Lots of textures and patterns and little moving pieces. In general, lots of her…
About me
Briana Yarhouse is an animator, researcher, and director of animation for Interlochen Academy of the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. She is also the director of International Animation Day for ASIFA International coordinating showings around the globe.
Her essays and papers have been published in the ASIFA Magazine, The International Journal of Comic Art, Society for Animation Studies Journal, among others. She has spoken on animation and sequential art at conferences around the world, most recently in 2021 at Annecy Animation Festival.
She has juried animation for the Woods Hole Film Festival and the Xiamen International Animation Festival. Her animation has played in many festivals most notably “Beyond Freedom,” which was nominated in 2006 for best short of the year at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013 her short film “The Box” was selected as part of the Best Animation from ASIFA at the Canlandiranlar Animators Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2020 she worked to coordinate animators all around the planet to create a collective animation called Spiritus Mundi: Animating the World. Her most recent work can be seen at yarhouse.com.