Meet the First (Stone Age) Animators

The human desire to animate drawings may stretch further back (much further back) than a couple hundred years. French filmmaker/researcher Marc Azéma has published new research suggesting that the Paleolithic artists who created drawings in the Lascaux caves of France were also attempting to animate their drawings. There’s a subscription-only article about his theory on NewScientist.com. A shorter blog post and accompanying video below are available for viewing by all.