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"For many decades, mainstream animation has maintained a relatively uniform visual identity. Following the release of Pixar’s 1995 debut film Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), a dominant visual style emerged within computer-generated filmmaking, as major animation studios began to adopt a shared set of stylistic conventions, resulting in films that appeared similar (Holliday 2018, 1). However, in 2018, mainstream animation experienced a notable shift in both its aesthetic and industrial priorities following the release of Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018). The film achieved both critical acclaim and box office success, being widely praised for its distinct visual style and its use of animation as a medium to enhance storytelling. Traditionally, mainstream animated films have followed an orthodox form, which is a mode that, despite depicting fantastical or exaggerated events, adheres to conventional narrative structures and realist frameworks (Wells 1998, 51)."

"Every Pokémon fan has one card they remember before they remember its value. It might be a battered Charizard from a schoolyard trade, a ghost Pokémon that looked creepier on cardboard than on television, or a small card that stayed at the front of a binder for years at home."

"Twenty five years ago to this day, in the ancient coastal city of Genoa, anti-riot units of the Italian police mounted a night-time raid against sleeping activists. Mostly young people, some of them journalists, who were spending the night camped inside a school complex—one named, perhaps fittingly, after a victorious WW1 general. Genoa was playing host to the G8. Protesters from all over the world had gathered there, as part of a ‘social forum’, to oppose the global system of governance which those periodic, heavily-sheltered meetings of the mighty had come to symbolise."