Hands on: analoge animatie technieken

Eye is expanding its permanent exhibition with the Animation Gallery dedicated exclusively to analogue animation techniques. Today, curator Leenke Ripmeester will discuss the various forms of animation in greater detail, such as stop-motion animation, cel animation, rotoscoping and animation done directly onto film stock.

In the film 50 paar handen, we see how the famous Geesink studio created its stop-motion animated films during the 1950s and ’60s. Cel animation is illustrated by Monique Renault’s drawn animated film Holy Smoke (2000). The complex rotoscoping process used to make the film I Move, So I Am (1997) by Gerrit van Dijk (1938-2012) will also be discussed. José Vonk’s film Fences (2009) is a great example of an animation where coloured pieces of foil are applied directly to celluloid. Finally, we take a look at the exceptional mosaic animation technique of Maarten Visser (1929-2009). In his film Oblique (1980), a mosaic made up of coloured tiles is animated to form marvellous, ever-changing geometric patterns.

The artwork used to make all of these various animations can be admired in the exhibition.