Pinscreen animation
Animación de pantalla de agujas
- Date
- 1931 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Claire Parker y Alexandre Alexeieff
- Field
- Communication
What it is
An animation technique using a screen filled with thousands of movable pins that, lit from the side, cast shadows to create engraving-like images, devised by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
What it led to
- used in auteur animated short films
- influenced generations of experimental animators
- anticipated unique texture and chiaroscuro effects in animation