Paint-on-glass animation

The oil - on-glass animation is an animation technique.

In this technique, a pane of glass (some with fingers) painted from the bottom of a light table, with oil paint and then photographed the. As this dries only after a long time, the painted can be repeatedly blurred or otherwise worked. Instead of oil and sometimes water colors like gouache are ( mixed with glycerol to slow down the process of the driest ) or substances used like sand. The latter is sand - on-glass animation called.

The oil - on-glass animation is considered "alternative" or "experimental" because it is almost always created by a single animator rather than in a large studio. The most famous artists used this technique is the Russian animator Alexander Petrov, who was honored for his since the late 1980s, appearing plants with numerous awards. His longest work of which is the Oscar-winning The Old Man and the Sea ( 1999), based on the story by Ernest Hemingway. Petrov's paintings were photographed with an IMAX camera. Petrov created over 29,000 recordings for this twenty minute film. Other representatives of this technology are for example Caroline Leaf ( The Street, 1976; otherwise mainly sand - on-glass animation) and Jochen Kuhn.