Technology | 2008.07.23
WALL.E (U)
One of the best jokes in WALL•E, the new digital animation from Pixar, is the end-credits sequence, which gives us the history of figurative art in a nutshell. A series of animated pastiches takes us from cave painting to the present, through ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, Turner and Seurat, all the way to ... Pacman. The entire development of image-making, to end in this: a few coloured dots running around a screen? Yet a handful of dots is Pixar\'s stock in trade, and the single dot – the pixel – which is computer animation\'s building block, has spawned cinema\'s most sophisticated image technology yet.
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