I've only had time for a quick skim through the book so far, but I've already noticed an amusing bit of trivia: research for the male stripper performance in Girls Night Out (1986) was undertaken at a pub in Elephant and Castle, the same part of London where #sas36 took place!
We can't believe it's been a week since the end of #SAS36! It was such a great event. We also can't stop thinking about the animation @joanna-quinn.bsky.social made during her keynote. Here is a version she created just for us! Thanks, Joanna!
Sam Summers, Michael Meindl, and Aaron Borok presenting in PANEL 10B: TELEVISION AND ONLINE ANIMATION. #SAS36
A display of research by LCC staff members, kindly put together for the conference by our library team. #SAS36
A few days late, but here are some photos that I took from the 36th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference. First up, UAL's own Kim Noce in PANEL 3C: MICRO TALKS. #SAS36 @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social
Congratulations to Clara Schulze from @filmuni.bsky.social for receiving the Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper! #SAS36
Artist-researcher Yanqi Liang stands at a lectern on the right, next to a slide from her presentation that featured frames from her animation. The frames are each drawn and/or embroidered, showing drawn images of a pair of women’s hands in various poses with bergamot. In the foreground are the backs of two audience members sitting in the front row.
Dr. Katerina Athanasopoulou stands to the right next to her title slide of her presentation, “Sustaining Animation Through the Animator’s Body.” The slide features a photographic image of a computer screen with an abstracted hand in the centre. The backs of two audience members sitting in the front row can be seen in the foreground.
Giorgos Nikopoulos is standing on the stage of the lecture hall, wearing a theatrical mask. He is striking a pose with both arms out in front of him, resting his weight on his back leg, as if preparing to fight. His presentation slide shows photos illustrating other masks and Jacques Lecoq’s method of mask acting. The backs of two audience members sitting in the front row can be seen in the foreground.
Absolutely fantastic panel on embodied animation and ideas of embodiment with excellent presentations by Katerina Athanasopoulou, and Yangqi Liang
Giorgos Nikopoulos. Bonus points for all the practice-based research involved . #sas36 💅🏻👋🏻🎭
Extremely informative panel on environmental sustainability in animation at #SAS36! @drcriformenti.bsky.social
And so #SAS36 comes to a close. Thanks to chairs David McGowan and Susi Wilkinson, and their entire team at the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts, for a great conference! Hope to see you at #SAS37 in Pittsburgh in 2026!
Clara Schulze, student at @filmuni.bsky.social and winner of the Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper, presents her award-winning research. #SAS36
SAS’ Co-President Cristina Formenti takes the stage to discuss the environmental footprint of digital animation
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Maike Sarah Reinerth kicks off one of the final panels by talking about pragmatic green storytelling. #SAS36
Some candids from last night's pub quiz at #SAS36 Our team, Duurzaamheid, strategically came in second to avoid accusations of Board favoritism and institutional corruption
Lisa Scoggin talks about the use of music to explore the father-son relationship in del Toro's Pinocchio. #SAS36
De Wit (who has light skin, glasses, white hair and beard, blue button-down shirt, and suspenders and dark pants) stands in front of a projection of his first PowerPoint slide for his talk, Animation and Ecological Awareness. The slide has a detailed illustration of a tree. De Wit is holding a soft red cube containing a microphone. He is looking in the direction of the camera.
Academy award-winner Michaël Dudok de Wit just gave us some kind of mental restorative yoga animation master class and my brain hasn’t felt this great in ages. #sas36
While we're done yet with #SAS36, we're excited to announce that next year's #SAS37 will be held in Pittsburgh (June 22-26, 2026)! Hope to see you there!
