SREF Project - Brianna
One of the museums that I went to for my SREF project was Storyworld, a museum dedicated to comics, animation, and games. One of the exhibits there showed one of the oldest animation devices called a 3D Zoetrope. Inside, there are numerous 3D models at various stages of, say, a walk cycle. When the machine turns on, the disks that these models are on will spin and lights will flash. This creates the illusion that the model inside is walking!
Zoetropes have been around since the 1830s, and were sold as toys 30 years later. These older versions had 2D images that were pasted on the inside of a cylinder. When spun, the images appeared to be moving. Nowadays, strobe lighting is used to create a better illusion of movement. The precise timing of the strobe lights allow the models to always appear in focus to the viewer without the blurriness of movement.
posted by Brianna M. @ May 31, 2022
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5 Comments:
That sounds like a really cool museum! It’s the part of history that I don’t think of much so it’s interesting to hear about it. The technology for this has advanced so much as well, and you wouldn’t think of a strobe light being so useful.
I never really thought about the process of how animation came to be. It sounds like it was a cool experience!
I also thought that the zerostropes were very cool. From what I understand from the museum is that it was one way that animators used to get claymation figurines to move for the movies.
This sounds like a cool museum! I have seen something similar in filming and it was a great experience. After seeing this it’s always interesting to watch something and know how it works/apply it to what you saw.
That is incredibly interesting. The animation industry has impacted cultures around the world so heavily that it is interesting to hear some of the history behind it.
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