Contents

Strategies for a Reduction to 2D Graphical Styles in 3D Computer Graphics with Hybrid Aesthetics by Yen-Jung Chang

Animated Documentaries as Masking: When Exposure and Disguise Converge by Nea Ehrlich

The Transformation of the Teenage Image in Oshii Mamoru’s The Sky Crawlers by Sheuo Hui Gan

Animating unique brain states: The animated documentary and ‘psychorealism’ by Samantha Moore

Decoding the Real: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Analysis of Reality in Animated Documentary by Javad Khajavi

Masculinity Between Animation and Live Action, or, SpongeBob v. Hasselhoff by Shannon Brownlee

The Secret of Kells, a film for a post Celtic Tiger Ireland? by Maria O’Brien

"An Experiment in Pure Design:" The Minimalist Aesthetic in the Line Films of Norman Mclaren by Aimee Mollaghan

Tradigital Mythmaking: New Asian Design Ideas for Animation by Hannes Rall

Woody’s Roundup and Wall-E’s Wunderkammer: Technophilia and Nostalgia in Pixar Animation by Colleen Montgomery

Actors in Sin City’s Animated Fantasy: Avatars, Aliens, or Cinematic Dead-ends? by Pierre Floquet