Oskar Fischinger’s musical animations come to life in Google Doodle sequencer
Today’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 117th birthday of German-American abstract artist Oskar Fischinger.
Fischinger’s musical animations were deemed “degenerate art” in Hitler’s Germany, and he left for the US in 1936, when an agent from Paramount Pictures recruited him to work in America.
His work was groundbreaking; the films were visually stunning despite being created decades before the existence of computer graphics or music videos. Leon Hong, creative lead on the Doodle, expresses just how impressive Fischinger’s work was, and still is. “Each frame [was] carefully drawn or photographed by hand,” says Hong. “A master of motion and color, Fischinger spent months — sometimes years — planning and handcrafting his…
