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oapen-20.500.12657-494972021-06-15T07:19:59Z Animating Unpredictable Effects Gowanlock, Jordan Animation Film/TV Industry Film Theory Film and Television Industry Visual Effects Live-Action Cinema Economics Mechanical Control Socio-Political Engineering Open Access Animated films Performing arts Film history, theory & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFV Animated films bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing. 2021-06-14T09:29:31Z 2021-06-14T09:29:31Z 2021 book ONIX_20210614_9783030742270_8 9783030742270 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49497 eng Palgrave Animation application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783030742270.pdf https://www.springer.com/9789813349926 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-74227-0 10.1007/978-3-030-74227-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 56d0050b-ec98-40d9-b47c-7bedbbc97064 882bcc8f-ab94-4a14-80b5-621dc4b56d73 9783030742270 Palgrave Macmillan 206 [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et Culture FRQSC University of California Berkeley University of California, Berkeley open access
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Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing.
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