Zbig Rybczynski’s Tango

 

Polish animator and filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczynski won an oscar in 1983 for his animated short “Tango”. An incredibly intricate piece of animation, no description can do it justice, you just have to watch it…

It is incredible to think this was made by hand, the complexity of it is mind boggling. Zbig himself has noted: “I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes…”

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