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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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Jason Kennedy
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Jason Kennedy was born in the United States and obtained a BA in studio art (Albion College, Albion, MI, 2004), a MFA in electronic art (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2007), and a PhD in acting in performance capture (Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 2021). He is a Senior Lecturer and Animation Pathway Leader in the Digital Design department at Auckland University of Technology. As both an actor and an animator, his research examines how our understanding of acting is challenged by modern animation and motion capture practices. He is also interested in the role of identity and immortality vis-à-vis digital representations of self, and how animation and palaeontology have led to advances and insights across both fields.
Dr Kennedy is a practicing artist with work in 3D animation, 3D fine art, video projection, and acting.
Areas of Focus​
3D animation, performance capture, motion capture, synthespians, photogrammetry, acting, palaeontology
Relevant Publications​
Acting and Its Double: A Practice-Led Investigation of the Nature of Acting Within Performance Capture
Vactor Ontologies: Framing Acting Within a Motion Capture Context (in press)
Cataloguing Vactors by Performance Style and Genre in Films from 2010-2013 (in press)
Cataloguing vactors by performance style in films from 2010
Critiquing the screen presence of synthespian counterparts
Acting-centred definitions of vactors, synthespians, and digital doubles
The protean double: Critiquing the screen Presence of synthespian counterparts
The animator’s (missing) hand: How practice informs seeing in 3D animation
Automation versus animation: a case for the affective potential of CG animation
Gauging meaningful reference performance in animation and motion capture
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