Zu3D

Here's the video animation I created on Zu3D! Doesn't it look professional?! :) Even though at first it looked really basic and easy to use i still struggled as always, once I got the jist of it i did find it easier to use.

Animation as a learning tool . . . . . . .

Created with Padlet

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)

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)

thaumatrope

A Thaumatrope is a disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image.

Clay animation . . . . . . .

* Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation.




* Each animated piece, either character or background, is made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay.




* Traditional animation is produced by recording each frame on film or digital media and then playing the recorded frames back in rapid succession.




* This creates the illusion of a continuous moving image.




* To shoot a 30-minute movie would require making approximately 21,600 stops to change the figures for the frames; a full-length (90-minute) movie, 64,800—and possibly many more if some parts were shot with "singles" or "ones" (one frame exposed for each shot).

The last animation I watched . . . . . .

The last animated film i watched was 'Rango' starring Johnny Depp! Absolutely love this film, watched it so many times but it's still funny. To sum the story up: Rango is a pet chameleon always on the lookout for action and adventure, except the fake kind, where he directs it and acts in it. After a car accident, he winds up in an old western town called Dirt. What this town needs the most is water, but they also need a hero and a sheriff. The thirsty Rango instantly takes on the role of both and selfishly agrees to take on the case of their missing water.