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The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope) was an early animation device that used the Persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. The Phenakistoscope is regarded as one of the first forms of moving media entertainment that paved the way for the future motion picture and film industry.
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc's center was a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it was a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user 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 user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture.
A variant of it had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures; this was slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and its successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one person at a time. The phenakistoscope was only famous for about two years due to the changing of technology.
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistoscope.
His father, born in Tournai, was a talented flower painter. According to Van der Mensbrugghe (1885, p. 390), at the age of six the young Joseph Plateau was already able to read, and this made him a child prodigy in those times. While attending the primary schools, he was particularly impressed by a lesson of physics: enchanted by the seen experiments, he promised himself to penetrate their secrets sooner or later. He used to spend his school holidays in Marche-Les-Dames, with his uncle and his family: his cousin and playfellow was Auguste Payen, who later became an architect and the principal designer of the Belgian railways. At the age of fourteen he lost his father and mother: the trauma caused by this loss made him fall ill.
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Watch more Animation Techniques videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/148840-How-to-Create-a-Phenakistoscope The phenakistoscope is a predecessor of the flip book, but don't worry: it's easier to make than pronounce. Step 1: Sketch a plan of your animation Plan out your animation with sketches. There should be 8 to 12 steps, each representing a frame. Tip The best animations for a phenakistoscope are cyclical, like a horse galloping or a child jumping rope. Step 2: Draw a circle Anchor your compass point in the center of the stiff paper and draw a circle that just touches the edges. Leave a small mark where the compass is anchored. Tip If you’re using a manila folder, cut it along the crease and use half of it as the stiff paper. Step 3: Bisect the circle Use the ruler to draw a fain...
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It's amazing to see how quickly animators managed to develop their skills. This series of 12 phenakistiscope discs was published in the same year this first real animation device was presented to the world by Belgian inventor Joseph Plateau. The artist(s) only had 8 to 12 frames to work with and these had to form a loop. The results are quite compelling and surprisingly fluent, although many movements are incorrect. This was made more than 40 years before Muybridge started his photographic motion studies... There was also an obvious lack of knowledge in other fields: a zebra coloured like a tiger and a monkey jumping from leaf to leaf were imagined to represent "The Desert". Of the 12 discs shown here only 5 came with a title: -Afraid of Nobody -The Bogle -Politeness -The Desert -Law and ...
Support Will: http://www.stormthecastle.com/support.htm This is a tutorial on ow to make a 19th century animation device called a phenakistoscope. It was invented in 1851 by Joseph Plateau and it is sometimes referred to as a magic disc. This is because it is a circular disc with a series of drawings and slotss in it. When you hold it up to a mirror, spin the disc and look through the slots the drawings turn into an animation. Simple and fun little animation device. In this tutorial I show you how it works and how to make one. I also have a template packet for this so you can download it, print it and make it yourself with just a few very basic supplies. In the packet I also give you three animation discs and a blank disc so you can make your own animation. Want to hop directly to the ...
2016年4月、岡山県立大学・映像デザインの授業において、映像制作の1stステップとして制作した「驚き盤」の映像集です。 The 1st. lesson of making movies at the class of the video design at Okayama prefectural university.
L'ILLUSION DE JOSEPH Virtual reality, 360-degree videos, social networks, video games that look like movies and movies that resemble video games: I think that most of the entertainment`s world nowadays has become monstrous and it is no longer just eyes` illusion, but often illusion of the mind. I do not know about you but personally, among all these innovation`s turbines, I find myself still attracted by ancient methods and tools which continue to fascinate me. Some time ago I came across a phenakistoscope (also spelled as phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope or phantasmascope or phantascope), an antique optical instrument that displays animated images (practically current animated gif) invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau. I then found some scans of these circles on the Internet and I began ...
Highlights from my first three months making analog animations on my lasercutter. Phenakistoscopes were one of the first forms of animation, using the persistence of vision effect to blur multiple images into one moving picture. Early forms relied on slits & mirrors to trick the eye, modern versions often use a strobe or a camera's shutter speed to trigger the animation. These lasercut discs spring to life when placed on a record player & viewed through a camera.