This short experimental animation tempts the eye with gradually unfolding yet increasingly complex movement, colour and sound. Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op art,” McLaren and Lambart’s film follows a single tiny square as it divides and multiplies, eventually forming a colourful, hypnotic mosaic set to the animators’ precise and deliberate musical orchestration.
i can’t imagine creating the program to do something like that. it looks like a precursor to Pong. I remember the first time I saw someone playing pong and how amazing it was.
Most of his work was done by scratching designs directly on to film.
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i can’t imagine creating the program to do something like that. it looks like a precursor to Pong. I remember the first time I saw someone playing pong and how amazing it was.
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Ol’ McLaren was ahead of his time, that’s for sure.
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