Eadweard Muybridge was a photographer that mainly worked with stop motion photography. He is well known for his motion picture "The Horse In Motion". In 1872 a California horse racer approached Muybridge and made a bet with him about whether a horse was ever floating whilst it was galloping. Muybridge lined up a bank of cameras that had trip wires connected to the shutters of the camera. Every time the horse triggered a trip wire the camera would take a picture.
In 1879 with the helping of Stanford's funding Muybridge was able to produce a better method of capturing a horse galloping. Later on in 1883 he was invited to further extend his research at the University of Pennsylvania, where he produced thousands of photography in motion. He displayed his work with a projector device he created called the Zoopraxiscope. Images were projected by a Zoopraxiscope with the use of a rotating disc. Images are painted on the disc and then rotated to make the image look like it is moving.
So far so good, but you need to blog more of your research into animators and developments in stop motion. Techniques and materials used are important.
ReplyDeleteAlso you should make sure all practical work is uploaded and that you have your initial brainstorm and ideas for your main animation here.
Amy