Friday, 22 March 2013

Zoetropes





A zoetrope invented in 1834 by William George Horner was created as a little device to produce an illusion movement of a certain action (mainly for cinematic animation movies) for a rapid succession of pictures. 
It is demonstrated by beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. The faster the rate of spin, the smoother the progression of images. A viewer can look through the wall of the zoetrope from any point around it, and see a rapid progression of images. Because of its design, more than one person could use the zoetrope at the same time.

I did many examples of zoetrope actions. The way I started off by doing it was by getting a paper which had 11 boxes. Each of the boxes were sided from the same level of when an object or person is dropping or growing (for making cinematic actions).  So for example of how I did it was I made a small stack of balls, and from the start of the left side I started with one ball then up to the 6th box which ended with 6 balls and then after that I drew the same balls from the same amount on each boxes I did on the right side and put the equal ones onto the left side. 

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