GACMA, Malaga, Spain
2008.11
The history of animation is already a hundred years old, and we could even say that it is a media that pre-dates cinema, but starts out on its great pathway along side it. If different “machines” and creations were soon able to give movement to drawings and images and end up providing what was called “optical theater”, the discovery of the photogram to photogram projection technique, together with simple tricks using the film and recording and projection devices, made emergence easier for a great evolution of a media and of a genre that has always had one foot anchored in the cinematic and entertainment industry and the other in artistic and avant-garde productions.
