Earlier Times: Animation tools

ZoetropeThaumatrope

PhenakistoscopePraxinoscopeMagic Lantern

Zoetrope-produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. The name zoetrope was composed from the Greek root words zoe, "life" and tropos, "turning".

Thaumatrope -a card with a picture on each side and is

attached to two pieces of string.

When the strings are twirled quickly, the

two pictures will appear to combine into a single image

due to persistence of vision.

Phenakistoscopealso spelled phenakistiscopeor phenakitiscope) was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images.

Phenakistoscope

the persistence of

vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

Praxinoscope-invented in 1877 by a Frenchman, Charles Reynaud-has mirrors in the middle with frames at the side that’s been placed inside a shallow outer cylinder, to see the movement of the animation you have to spin it and look at the mirrors.

Magic Lantern

-early type of image projector developed in the 17th century.

Still Being Used in Cinema

Still Being Used in Cinema