Total animation as the first preview from this year’s Anifilm

A part of the 2014 edition of Anifilm will be dedicated to a specific animated film technique – total animation. The definition of total animation comes from the technological processing of the drawing or painting animated in one layer. For each new phase of the picture is created a brand new and original picture. It is a technique in which editing and camera movement are created by animation. As the technique itself is very demanding, it is most often used by a solitaire author who makes it possible to keep the ever-changing picture flowing. Aesthetically, total animation is characterised by constant changes and motion through space and one its principal expression methods is metamorphosis. The authors often animate drawings or paintings on backlit surfaces. The festival programme focusing on total animation will contain animated films and workshops of important authors as well as lectures by them. The first one to use this technique in the Czech animated film industry was Igor Ševčík (1951 – 2003), who has unfortunately fallen into oblivion. Anifilm will present his retrospective. Director Pavel Koutský, an important author using total animation technique, will introduce a showcase of his works.