Tag Archives: media
The Rise of the Amateur Animator
The digital revolution in media production is dramatically changing the techniques, forms, content, and function of modern animation and is actively remixing it with other media forms so much that digitally-created animation is now nothing short of a new mode cultural production and a totally unique form of motion-graphic storytelling of its own right.
The diversity of software tools available for creating moving images on a screen has contributed to the rise of a tremendous and diverse number of styles, techniques, and looks. The multitude of distribution channels further enforced the trend of convergence towards forms more suitable for display on multiple screen sizes and configurations. Continue reading
An Ode to Contemplation
The signs of info-exhaustion are abundantly clear. I’ve been flashing them red in my status updates after all. Hanson Hosein I’m tired of being in a perpetual state of communication (says the digital media journalist guy via Twitter and Facebook). … Continue reading
Every Company is a Media Company
Not that long ago, media companies were easy to define. A media company could be a movie studio, television network, newspaper or magazine publisher, radio station or really any company that controlled a means of distributing content. But technology has … Continue reading
Project collaboration site
Just got a mail sent to the digital media working group at UW from Phillip Thurtle. Thought I’d post to the blog in case some students are not on that email list: “Hello all, I’m writing to see if any … Continue reading
What is Flip the Media?
Posted by Adriana We have been having an intense email discussion on what constitutes media and what is Flip the Media as a concept. It all started with a Common Craft video about what is Twitter and whether or not … Continue reading
Learning to do this ourselves
Posted by Hanson Hanson: This recent Ad Age article, “Media Force Sinks to 15 Year Low” provides good fodder both for the editorial theme of our films (traditional media in serious transition), and for why it’s important that we all … Continue reading
