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Before time
18000BC - Cave Paintings - flickering shadows
7000BC - Shadow puppets
2000BC - Ancient Greek drew figures on vases in various stages of movment
180AD - Earliest prototype for Zoetrope - Ting Huan China -
The Magic Lantern
A magic lantern is an early type of image projector, an ancestor of the modern slide projector. The most widely accepted theory is that Christiaan Huygens developed the original device in the late 1650s. The magic lantern has a concave mirror in front of a light source that gathers light and projects it through a slide with an image scanned onto it. The light rays cross an aperture and hit a lens. The lens throws an enlarged picture of the original image from the slide onto a screen. -
Thaumatrope
The thaumotrope consists of two images on each side with two strings attached to it. When the two strings are twirled together quickly the two images appear to combine into a single image. The modern day versions of these are called tozos were no strings are required just movemnt of the tazo. It was invented by either John Ayrton Paris or Peter Mark Roget. -
Phenakistoscope
The Phenakistoscope uses the persistence of motion principle to create an illusion of motion. Two disk are stuck together with a handle. One contains slits while the other has images. When viewed in a mirror through the first disc's slots, the pictures on the second disc will appear to move. It was invented by Belgian Joseph Plateau. -
Flip book
A flip book (invented by John Barnes Linnett) has a series of animation drawn onto each page br flipping each page rapidly the pictures appear to animate. -
Praxinoscope
It is an improved version of the Zeotrope. Instead of the slits outside, in the inner circle mirrors replaced it. The outside circle has all th3e images on it and once spun focusing on once mirror will allow you to see the animation. -
Zoopraxiscope
Created by Eadweard Muybridge, it is considered the first movie projector. Images are drawn on the edges of a glass disk. Then by rotating the disk a moton appears. -
Electrotachyscope
It is the invention of Ottomar Anschütz Germany. It's purpose is to present the illusion of motion with transparent serial photographs on a spinning glass disk. It was significant for the development of cinenma's -
Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. This device set the standards for the movie projector that would come out. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. -
Mutoscope
A mutoscope was an early device that flicked a series of photographs, patented by Herman Casler. It can only be viewed by one person at a time through a little hole by rotating a handle. -
Stop Motion Animation
Stop motion animation is an animation that uses lots of still pictures joined together. The more you take the more fluent and smooth the animation. After each picture you are move the your puppet or any other object and take another picture continuously. The technique is mostly used in claymation and puppet-based animations. -
Persistence of vision
Our eyes have the ability to persist the object for a time equal to 1/16th seconds after the removal of the object. This time is known as persistance of vision. -
Rotoscope
The technique was invented by Max Fleischer. It is a technique in which animators trace over footage frame by frame to use in animated films such as Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. In some case it is also used in the game GTA. A rotoscope’s output may slightly deviate from the original true line of the image that vary between frames. When the frames are animated, an unnatural shake that is also referred to as a “boil” may result. Sometimes animators purposely use this effect. -
Strobe light
Invented by Harold Edgarton, the strobe light is a fast flashing lamp used for freezing the movements of certain objects. -
2D Vector Graphics
This is a digital technique for creating 2D animations. The vector graphics are made up of many mathematical equations rather than pixels which enable the vectors to be always at the highest quality possible. This particular graphical technique uses points, lines, curves and shapes. -
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is Software used to create animations. Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images.Flash animations use 'tweens' (moving object from one position to another) to move objects on layers. Most Flash animations have a cartoony look about them. -
Zoetrope
The Zeotrope is a cyclinder consisting thin cylinder slits cut vertically on the sides There are usually 10-12 slits but it totally depends on the diameter. Inside the cylinder are many images with each one differenciating ever so slightly which reprosents movement once spun. You have to look through only one slit for the effectr to work. It was created in China by inventor Tin Huan
