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*Apologies for cross posting* We start the new year with a special on the popular anime series Yuri!!! on Ice. Jacqueline Ristola, Caitlin Casiello, Misha Mihailova and Evelyn Hielkema discuss in a roundtable various aspects of the series in the attempt to better understand its success. You can read the first part of the roundtable here: https://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=1759 Please feel free to join in the conversation by commenting the post. Also, we have a new CFP for the month of February, which will be devoted to exploring the work of Blue Sky Studios. Deadline for submissions is January 26th. You can check out the full CFP, "30 Years of Blue Sky Studios", below ! If you have any ideas for themes and/or would like to curate a month please let me know. Best wishes and happy new year, Cristina Dr. Cristina Formenti Interim co-editor of Animation Studies 2.0 Follow us on twitter @anistudies Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SocietyForAnimationStudies?ref=hl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP 30 Years of Blue Sky Studios, February theme (Deadline Thursday 26th January 2017) Founded in February 1987 by Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy, Chris Wedge, Allison Brown, David Brown and Michael Ferraro, Blue Sky Studios was created to improve and develop CGI animation. It went from being a small studio with a tiny staff of innovators and little money that worked mainly on TV commercials to becoming a visual effects company that has worked on major live-action motion pictures, like Alien Resurrection (1997) and Fight Club (1999), to finally becoming a leading animation studio with approximately 600 employees that has produced box office successes such as Ice Age (2002) and Rio (2011). To mark the 30 years since its foundation, we are inviting posts looking at the work of Blue Sky Studios form a variety of perspectives. Topics include but are not limited to: – Blue Sky Studios and CGI animation – Blue Sky Studios and visual effects – The role of Blue Sky Studios in the contemporary animation panorama and its relationship with other major studios, such as Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks and so on – Blue Sky Studios’ early days TV commercials – Blue Sky Studios’ shorts – Blue Sky Studios’ feature films – The Blue Sky Studios aesthetic – Blue Sky Studios’ production processes – Blue Sky Studios’ marketing and branding strategies. Posts of between 400 and 600 words, which discuss any aspect of the above topic are welcome. Contributors are encouraged to include clips and images to support their posts. Please also include a short bio to accompany the post. All permissions are the responsibility of the contributor. Please contact the editors Cristina Formenti ([log in to unmask]) and Jacqueline Ristola ([log in to unmask]) for submissions and questions. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------