Hannes Rall
Hannes (Hans-Martin) Rall is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and the Coordinator of the Digital Animation area. He is also a successful director of independent animated short films: His films, primarily animated adaptations of classic literature, have been shown in over 650 film-festivals worldwide and won 70 international awards.
Biography
Hannes Rall (aka Hans-Martin Rall)Hannes Rall is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media
at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and the Coordinator of the Digital Animation area. He is also a successful director of independent animated short films: His films, primarily animated adaptations of classic literature, have been shown in over 650 film-festivals worldwide and won 70 international awards.
His conference presentations include FMX, ACM SIGGRAPH and the Annual Conferences of the Society for Animation Studies. In 2016 he was the Chair of the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Animation Studies The Cosmos of Animation in Singapore.
Hannes has published essays, articles, book chapters and books with renowned publishers like Routledge, UVK Verlag Konstanz and Julius Springer.
Hannes is a member of the advisory board of the book-series Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers and the editorial board of the forthcoming book series Palgrave Animation. He has recently completed a script for an animated feature film adapted from the German national epic Die Nibelungen. His book Animation: From Concept to Production (CRC/Taylor & Francis) was published in December 2017. His new book Adaptation for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame was published by CRC Press on July 15, 2019.
Education
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Master of Design (eq.) State Academy of the Arts Stuttgart
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Digital animation, adaptation for animation, expanded animation, VR, Asian animation history, Singaporean animation, comics practice and history, comics journalism.
Personal Interests
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Animation history, comics, Karl May, UPA, Studio Zagreb, Animation production design, classic and contemporary soundtracks.
Books
Articles
Authenticity in comics journalism. Visual strategies for reporting facts
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Volume 8, 2017 - Issue 4
Authors: Wibke Weber, Hannes Rall.
Subjects:
Animation
ears have seen the rise of a new genre in news coverage: comics journalism. It combines journalistic techniques with the use of comics as a medium. Instead of reporting verbally, journalists draw the news. However, if journalists use a medium for news coverage that is associated with fiction, how will readers know whether the comics journalists are telling the truth, whether their reports are not fictional?
Casting a long shadow: Lotte Reiniger’s artistic legacy reinvented for the digital age
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Contemporary Animation 3 No. 289, 2019. pp 101–107. China Film Art Research Center
Authors: Hannes Rall
Lorre Reiniger's lasting influence on contmeporary animators.
Art-directed watercolor stylization of 3D animations in real-time
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Computers & Graphics Volume 65, June 2017, Pages 60-72
Authors: S.E.Montesdeoca, H.S.Seah, H.-M.Rall, D.Benvenuti
Subjects:
Animation
Direct stylization pipeline to simulate and render watercolor images. Art-direction in object-space to control characteristic watercolor effects. Real-time performance for immediate artistic feedback.
Lange Schatten einer Pionierin Der Einfluss von Lotte Reiniger auf nachfolgende Trickfilmer-Generationen
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Märchen im Medienwechsel pp 101-120
Authors: Hannes Rall
Subjects:
Animation
Lotte Reiniger ist bekannt als wichtige Pionierin des Trickfilms in Deutschland und weltweit. Mit Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed erschuf sie den ersten noch existierenden abendfüllenden Animationsfilm. Dabei lag ihr Schwerpunkt thematisch vorrangig auf der Adaption bekannter Märchen und Mythenwelten – auch in dieser Hinsicht war sie eine künstlerische Vorreiterin.
New Beginnings and Continued Traditions: Redefining Animated Storytelling for New Technologies?
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by CONFIA 2018 conference proceedings as keynote
Authors: Hannes Rall
Subjects:
Animation
Redefining Animated Storytelling for New Technologies
Little Red Bard: Shakespeare in the Realm of Animated Documentary
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by CONFIA 2018 conference proceedings
Authors: Hannes Rall,Elke rein huber, Wibke Weber
Subjects:
Animation
This article examines the research and creative process of creating a short animated documentary about the relevance of Shakespeare for digital natives in Singapore.
Adapting Shakespeare for virtual reality : defining an integrated research framework
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by CONFIA 2017 conference proceedings
Authors: Hannes Rall, Elke Reinhuber, Wibke Weber
Subjects:
Animation
This article describes the larger research context and the research strategy to gain more insight into qualitative criteria for successfully adapting a Shakespeare text for VR in an animated version.
Aesthetic affordances: Computer animation and Wayang Kulit puppet theatre
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Animation Practice, Process & Production, Volume 3, Numbers 1-2, 1 December 2013, pp. 195-217(23)
Authors: Authors: Jernigan, Daniel K.; Chansavang, Anthony; Martin-Rall, Hannes; Hock-Soon, Seah; Lim, Darren; Johan, Henry
Subjects:
Animation
his article describes the various animation techniques we used in creating our short animated piece, Si Lunchai (based on the Indonesian folktale of the same name).
„We are journalists.“ Production Practices, Attitudes and a Case Study of the New York Times Newsroom
Published: Aug 11, 2019 by Springer: Interaktive Infografiken pp 161-172
Authors: Wibke Weber, Hannes Rall.
Subjects:
Animation
When interactive information graphics are based on large data sets, they are also called data visualization or sometimes “data stories”, a new buzzword that links together two different disciplines: computer science and journalism.
Redefining Storytelling: Towards Narrative Solutions for Animation in VR.
Published: Jun 14, 2019 by CONFIA 2019 conference proceedings
Authors: Rall, Hannes, Reinhuber, Elke; Weber, Wibke.
Subjects:
Animation
Storytelling for virtual reality (VR) challenges the animation filmmaker to reconsider the approach to creation. Traditional narrative tools like framing and editing cease to exist or must be reinvented for the new medium. Therefore, new strategies must be developed to focus the user’s attention towards the narrative.