Camera-less Animation

Camera-Less Animation

What Is It?

-Pre camera tactic to create the illusion of movement through a series of images

Thaumatrope

History

-Invented in 1826

-Thaumatrope= Turning marvel or wonder turner

-First optical/mechanical toy

How It Works?

-Small disc connected by a string on the sides

-Two images are drawn on either side in a way that when it spins it superimposes both images

Link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2h9i5_2-thaumatropes_fun

Phenakistoscope

History

-Invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau

-Also named Spindle viewer

-Developed scientifically soon became amusement for children

How It Works?

-A wheel divided in to equal parts with animation in the center moving outward (like a spiral) with slits on the outside of the circle to view through.

Spin the wheel facing it towards a mirror and look at image through the slits in the mirror

Link: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation3.htm

Zoetrope

History

-Invented in 1834 by William Horner

-Also called the wheel of life

-Based on Plaetau's phenakistoscope

How It Works?

-Works the same way as the phenakistiscope

-It was put on the inside of a drum and the viewer would look in the slits and look down on the series of images

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKEM5sYnOjE&feature=player_embedded

Flip Book

History

-First form of animation in a linear sequence of images

-It was the birth of most cinema

How It Works?

-A book with images on each page

-When the pages are flipped they move in a sequence to create a story line

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocF4ycBnYE&feature=player_embedded

Transitioning to Film

-Soon these techniques were taken to film by drawing or scratching in a linear motion on a strip of paper or film

-This would then be taped in sequence

How to Make a Zoetrope = http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Zoetrope