>> Norman McLaren

"It is more important what happens in between each frame than what happens on each frame"

"not the art of drawings that move, but rather the art of movements that are drawn"

1947: Norman McLaren painted lengthwise on film instead of frame by frame. His first film using this method was Fiddle-de-Dee.which won an Academy award.

1971: Norman McLaren releases the film Synchromy in which the same images that produced the sound on the sound track had been painted on the visual film.

--> note in Century's ppt
--> inspiration to Ron Baecker's handdrawn animation program GENESYS
--> inspiration for Alan Kay, who wanted to create 3d animation
--> inspiration for NRC developments in computer animation