Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Analogue animation.

It all started with this:


Andrew Salomone's Pizzoetrope.

Then I started digging and discovered so many interesting people who like to play around with phenakistoscope and zoetrope techniques nowadays.

The phenakistoscope and zoetrope (funny and weird names?) are both early animation devices which produce an illusion of motion.
The phenakistoscope consisted of a spinning disc which was vertically mounted on a handle. Around the disc's center were series of drawings and series of slots right next to the edge. The user would spin the disc and look through the slot into the disc's mirror reflection where rapid succession of images would appear to him as a moving picture.


Eadweard Muybridge's phenakistoscope, 1893


The zoetrope was practically the improved version of  the phenakistoscope, only cylindrical shaped, which did not require the use of mirror and more than one person could view the moving picture at the same time.

Using phenakistoscope technique but adding turntables to the equation and a bunch of records with printed-on animations based on album covers (!), Clemens Kogler created something delicious to watch:


Then there's Jim Le Fevre's magical experiment :


And in the end, Retchy who stunningly incorporated projection mapping into his 3D zoetrope:


2 comments:

  1. ou ou ou

    pancake-o-scope ... zou-trope


    2nd vid @ 33' supa fun fun funY



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  2. "pancake-o-scope & zou-trope" =D

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