Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Animation Devices

 Zoetrope

Pre film animation a zoetrope is one of several Pre film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. My teacher brought a battery operated zoetrope in class room. It's got nine figures and is made by plastic and paper.

Thaumatrope 

Thaumatrope is a toy and it was popular in the 19th century. Thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string.

Flip Book
 

A flip book is a collection of combined pictures intended to be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and create an animated sequence from a simple small book without machine.

Phenakistoscope

It is a device that was invented in 1832 for animation purposes. Basically what you've got is two wheels with sequences of animations around it, kind of like a flip book. It was mounted in front of a mirror. They would then be spun rotating on the same axis, where the image would be viewed through some cuts or slits in the wheel. 


Magic Lantern

A simple form of image projector used for showing photographic slides. It was developed in the 17th century and commonly used for educational and entertainment purposes.

1 comment:

  1. Good you have some of the work animated. It makes it much more interesting . Just proof read what you have written, you might notice some of the mistakes you have made, especially if you read it aloud to yourself. You could have posted a picture of the device I brought in! Steve

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