Zoetrope

Zoetrope

• A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of still pictures.

• The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut into the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures.

• As the cylinder spins, you look through the slits at the pictures across and you see a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

(Oxford Dictionary 2014) 

phenakistoscope

A phenakistoscope is a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Displayed around the disc's center is a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it are a series of equally spaced radial slits. We would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the we would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture. (Wikipedia 2014)

How to make a phenakistoscope?

View How to Create a Phenakistoscope on Howcast

Zoetrope

Zoetrope

"A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of still pictures.The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut into the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures.As the cylinder spins, you look through the slits at the pictures across and you see a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion."

(Oxford Dictionary 2014) 

Clay Annimation

Clay animation or clay motion is one of many forms of stop motion animation. It is produced by recording each frame, or still picture, on film or digital media and then playing the recorded frames back together to form a film like animation. Each object involved is sculpted from clay or Plasticine etc,  and then arranged on the set. It is photographed in its initial position and then every slight movement made is also captured. The more photos taken the smoother the film will run. Most Normal film runs at 24 frames per second. Because of this you have to ensure the object is not accidentally moved and nor the lighting or camera changed otherwise your photos will be different and wont flow. A famous clay motion animation is my child hood favorite morph.

 

The last animation I watched

The Lion King

The last animation I watched was the one and only Disney Lion King. Im sure most of you know what it is about and have seen it a hundred times, but just incase ill give you a quick overview of the film. It is about a baby lion cub Simba who looses his father to his eveil uncle Scar. Simba is forced to move away from his land however later returned in his life to beciome King. Is a heart warming film which I could watch every day, and if you havent yet wtached it, you need to.

 The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
 Steven Withrow. (2007). Ensemble Cast. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_cast. Last accessed 12/02/14.

Today Mandy helped us learn to pod cast for our science module. Above is a clip of me playing around with audacity. I then saved it to archive.org which saved it into my account and enabled me to upload it to my blog. I wouldnt say ive mastered pod casting yet.... but I guess its a start. x

Below is a link on pod castsif you are not sure what they are. Click on the link to see more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast