[game_edu] CfP: 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE - Animation on the Fly: Animation and Video Games, Guest Edited Issue of Animation Journal

[Jose P. Zagal]

2011 SPECIAL ISSUE - Animation on the Fly: Animation and Video Games
Guest Edited Issue of Animation Journal
Editor: Kara Lynn Andersen

The look and feel of video game animation is rooted in cinematic and 
televisual animation principles, however, to date, most scholarship on 
video games has neglected the visual design of games in favor of the 
experience of playing a game or the effects of game violence on players. 
Scholarship on animation, on the other hand, has concentrated on 
animation distributed through film, television, or the Internet. Thus, 
with the exception of a growing body of work on machinima, the animated 
images of video games remain underexplored. This special issue of 
Animation Journal will focus on the stylistic and aesthetic 
intersections between traditional animation and video games.

Scholarly articles on any aspect of the relationship between of animated
film/television productions and video games are sought for this special
issue of Animation Journal. Possible topics include:

. Machinima
. Transmedia storytelling involving games and animation
. The work of a particular game animation artist
. The use of "cartoon aesthetics" in video games
. Issues in adaptation from games to animated films/cartoons or vice versa
. Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of game animation software 
or production techniques
. The construction of identity through animated game avatars
. The relationship between manga, anime and Japanese game design
. Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of animation rendered on 
the fly

Timeline:
Currently reading proposals
Paper submission deadline - April 30, 2011
Refereeing - April-May 2011
Revisions/Editing - May-July 2011
Journal Publication - October 2011

Papers are blind refereed, so the author's name should not appear in the
body of the manuscript but only on an attached cover sheet. E-mail a 
copy of the paper to the editor as a Microsoft Word file or as an RTF 
document.

Submissions and inquiries should be directed to guest editor Kara 
Andersen at klandersen at brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Animation Journal was established in 1992 as the first peer-reviewed 
journal devoted to animation. It has published research from animation 
scholars
worldwide.

Guest Editor Profile:

Kara Lynn Andersen is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn
College, CUNY. Her research interests include digital cinema and the
intersections of live-action film, animation, and video games. Her 
essays have been published in Post Script and CLCWeb, and she is a 
member of the Video Game Special Interest Group of the Society for 
Cinema and Media
Studies.





-- 
José P. Zagal
Assistant Professor
College of Computing and Digital Media
DePaul University

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