Introduction to Animation - Week 02, February 9th

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)

Norman McLaren has developed the innovative animated film techniques that eliminated the camera and required the artist to draw directly on the film. He also created 'animated sound,' a form of 'visible' or synthetic sound made by hand-drawings directly on the sound-track of the film. This film possesses almost hypnotic qualities as you watch in amazement how color dots dance on the screen with perfect synchronization of images and sound. The author explained his interesting method in the short film Pen Point Percussion.