Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation

Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema

Animation and technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn flipbooks to stop-motion and computer-generated imagery (CGI), animation’s identity is in flux. But many of these moving image technologies, like CGI, emerged from the world of animation. Indeed, animation has made essential contributions to not only computer imagery but also cinema, helping shape them into the fields and...