book
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics
A study of animation techniques and their philosophical significance.
article
Too Close, Not Blue: Yellow Submarine
An examination of the design of Yellow Submarine, the history of color in cartoons, and the privacy of pain.
video
Perspectival Movement: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa
A demonstration of how Caroline Leaf’s sand-on-glass animation technique combines a camera movement with a dissolve in The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977).
From Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, chapter three.