Oil-on-glass animation
The paint-on-glass animation is an animation technique .
With this technique, a pane of glass that is illuminated from below by a light table is painted with oil paint (sometimes with fingers) and then photographed. Since this dries only after a long time, the painting can be blurred or processed differently several times. Instead of oil, watercolors such as gouache (mixed with glycerine to slow down the drying process) or substances such as sand are sometimes used. The latter is called sand-on-glass animation .
Oil-on-glass animation is considered "alternative" or "experimental" because it is almost always created by a single animator rather than in a large studio. The best-known artist using this technique is the Russian animator Alexander Petrow , who has received numerous awards for his works that have appeared since the late 1980s. His longest work of these is the Oscar- winning The Old Man and the Sea (1999), based on the story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway . Petrow's paintings were photographed with an IMAX camera. For this twenty-minute film, Petrov made over 29,000 recordings. Further representatives of this technique are, for example, Caroline Leaf ( The Street , 1976; otherwise mainly sand-on-glass animations) and Jochen Kuhn .
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- ↑ a b Julius Wiedemann (Ed.): Animation Now! Taschen, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8228-3789-4 , p. 19.