Visually – An Atlas of Images in Motion

Pietro Grandi

How many times, while watching an animated movie, did we find ourselves wondering: how on Earth did they make it?
Animating an image isn’t just creating a sequence of sketches and then playing it. There’s a whole lot of things to know and to do. Through its thorough, vintage tinged pictures, Visually by Pietro Grandi leads us to discover the images in motion, their history, all the tools and means man came up with to reveal the dynamics of things: from the horses in the Lascaux caves to the full-length animated films, from shadow plays to the optical disks, from flipbooks to photography.

This book is for reading, but also for doing: just arm yourself with cardboards, pencils, scissors, glue and a box cutter and follow the instructions to recreate the magic of images in motion.

Pietro Grandi is a digital media designer, founder of the Sensitive Mind studio. He developed multimedia creations, visual music for live shows, immersive video experiences, videomappings and visuals for advertising campaigns, concerts, cultural events, festivals and temporary exhibitions, in collaboration with Italian and worldwide firms. In 2014 he wrote Pixar Story – “Passione per il futuro” (Hoepli). Since 2019 he’s professor of Extramedia techniques and Planning Methodology of Communication at NABA, in Milan.