Author: Alice Cox
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Router, or Rooter?
Lost in translation Lipsync: My idea came from a memory of when I stayed at my friend’s flat in Sydney. I had asked her where the [WIFI] router was. With my English accent, I pronounce router as ‘rooter’. She found this hilarious and told me that in Australia a rooter is a prostitute. For the…
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How the Simpsons Championed the Anicom Genre
Anicom is the term used for an animated sitcom. Pretty much every genre has been expressed through animation, and in the 1960s, 2D animation was used to make a sitcom called The Flintstones. What makes an Anicom different from children’s animation shown on the TV is that they are made to appeal to the whole…
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Good Luck, work experience
For simulated work experience I was assigned with 6 others to assist Ying Jian, Canaan Ji, and Yuchen Zhang with their animation, ‘Good Luck’. I was nervous at first, being part of a large group of people can make communication harder. I also worried about looking stupid by asking too many questions, but what if…