In this video, we explore a little bit of archaeologist Marc Axéma's and artist Forent Rivère's theory that when a flickering torchlight is passed over cave paintings of animals with multiple limbs or heads, it gives them movement and creates a brief animation.
While we can somewhat see their point ... really, anything illuminated by firelight seems magical. They do however, make a compelling case when they play the drawings sequentially - [ Ссылка ]
This is part of a blog post series about the history of animation. You can read the post about cave painting animations here - [ Ссылка ]
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