Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Phenakistiscope Disc

The precursor to animation. These carefully rendered discs of sequential drawings creates optical illusion of movement while been rotated clockwise and anti clockwise.
A Phenakistiscope disc, circa 1833 featuring metamorphosis from which the above motion was digitally reconstituted. Victorian era optical toys.

This metamorphosis sequence relies on the animation principle of "squash and stretch" for it's effect.

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