Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard J. Muybridge was born on the 9th of April 1830 in Surrey and passed away on the 8th of May 1904. His full real name was Edward James Muggeridge, but he adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge because he believed it to be the original Anglo- saxon form of his name. Eadweard was an English photographer who spent most of his life in America which he immigrated to in 1851. He was famously known for pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and documented a baboon in motion. Eadweard was acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover.

Eadweard Muybridge manged to capture horses gallop by using a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. We recreated this experiment by setting up six webcams, and six people had to take a picture in time as Iman walked by. We used the same technique for Ruths fall. The process was pretty fun, also the technique we used was straightforward. Although we could have improved it by using more frames per second to make it appear smooth.

CUT OUT ANIMATION

Ruths Fail

Emans Walk

Zoetrope

The human eye has the ability to persist the detail of the object for time equal to 1/6th seconds after the removal of the object. This time is known as persistence of vision.

A zoetrope is an early form object which causes us to see moving images. The zoetrope is a cylinder that has slits cut around the side of it allowing you to see through the sides. Inside the cylinder it consists of a strip with images drawn on it. Although the images don’t have to be drawn images, they can also be photos. If you then spin the Zoetrope, it will create the illusion of motion.

Positive:

1.  Simple animation device

2.  Creates the illusion of movement

Negative:

1.  Amount of frames are limited

2.  The way you view it has to be just from the side and not the top, otherwise all you'd see is a blur

3.  Long process if you have to draw on the strip