3-D animation comes to Gaza
Producing 3-D animated films is not easy in Gaza City, where there is a scarcity of advanced technology and funding, but some young artists are going above and beyond to follow their passion.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — If one wants to make an animated clip of a child on his bicycle, it requires 24 frames for a single second of animation. The images are displayed in quick succession, and the human brain processes the still images as movement. This is the basic idea behind the first animated film in the history of cinema, produced in 1908, when French caricaturist Emile Cohl drew 700 still images and displayed them in succession to produce the animated cartoon “Fantasmagorie.”
Many others followed suit and succeeded in creating hundreds of animated films and series like "Mickey Mouse" and "Tom and Jerry." The animation industry developed further, and today there is 3-D animation. While Gaza City, like all others, is influenced by the creativity of the world surrounding it, the occupation and siege have hindered it in the technical industries.
