Friday, 30 October 2009

A brief history of animation from 1671 to the present day

The magic lantern 1671

Its an oil lamp with a lens and has images painted on the glass. you light up the oil lamp and project the images on a suitable screen




A thaumatrope 1824

is a disk or card with a picture on each side with 2 pieces of string attached to it. if you twirle the strings with your fingers the pictures combine together giving you an illusion 




The praxinoscope 1877
This was an animation invented by charles-Émile Reynaud.
It has a strip of pictures around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder



A flip book 1868
A flip book is a series of pictures from one page to the other.
when the pages are turned or flicked rapidly the pictures form an animation. 



Stop motion
Stop motion is made with frame by frame its an animation technique which makes objects apear or move. You can do it picture by picture and make each one move slightly in a way which will turn into animation.

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