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by viraptor 1000 days ago
This style reminds me of the opening animation of Soul Train https://youtu.be/y3FNXkeXhOc and a bit of the Beatles animated movie.

Does that style of animation have a name?

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I believe this look traces back to the work of Push Pin Studios[1], an influential graphic design studio founded in the mid-sixties. It is hard to underestimate how much this style dominated the time; as a kid in the seventies these psychedelic stylized chrome reflections were everywhere.

I mostly think of it by association with artists who were well-known for it, such as the Pushpin guys, or Peter Max.

Worth looking at: the catalog from this exhibition of some of Push Pin's work. [2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_Pin_Studios

2: https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-push-pin-legacy/ - hit the 'download' button on the right sidebar for a whole bunch of psychedelic imagery.