CREATIVITY — footnote episodes

The current cultural “pervasiveness” of animated media and the medium’s durable status as a vital intermediary between ‘us’ and ‘the world’ is the focus of this latest Footnote episode, which tackles “Pervasive Animation” as it has been understood within Suzanne Buchan’s 2013 anthology of the same name. Chris takes Alex through the requisite methodological challenges, considerations, and conundrums when looking at animation’s many forms within contemporary moving image culture, as well as what Buchan says about the need to push animation’s multiplicity of definitions towards aesthetic and critical intersections with everything from fine art and sculpture to videogames and medical imaging.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantMay 26, 2025ANIMATION, HISTORY, THEORY, CREATIVITYComment

Footnote #33 - Can Colour Blind People Work in VFX? (with Chris McKenna)

Special guest Chris McKenna, current Head of Creative Operations at the VFX studio Moving Picture Company, joins Chris and Alex for this latest Footnote episode on the VFX industry, with a particular focus on artists with colour blindness and advice on the best avenues for getting into animation lighting and design.

Footnote #22 - Boiling

The second Fantasy/Animation footnote of the year sees Chris and Alex discuss boiling, an often-unintentional aesthetic effect involving the visibility of undulating animated lines that surfaces due to slight deviations within repeating drawn images.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantJanuary 30, 2023LABOUR, CEL ANIMATION, CRAFT, CREATIVITY, MOVEMENTComment

Footnote #17 - Metaphor

The power of symbolism and the creativity of the metaphorical are the focus of Footnote #17, which seeks to distinguish Metaphor through animation’s identity as a ‘metaphorical’ medium and, as a consequence, its fundamental rhetorical and symbolic potential.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantNovember 7, 2022METAPHOR, RHETORIC, IMAGINATION, CREATIVITYComment