Zoetrope

Using the template found in the passouts folder create a 10 to 12 frames motion study. These can be either hand drawn or created using a software of your choice. Once complete post a photograph or pdf of your Zoetrope to the class blog.

Zoetrope (180 AD; 1834)

One of the earliest devices for viewing and interacting with animation is the Zoetrope.
Invented in 180ad in china by Ting Huan and called The Pipe Which Makes Fantasies Appear.

Modern Zoetropes were invented in 1834 by the British mathematician William George Horner. He called his a Daedalum “the wheel of the devil.” It was an American inventor named William F. Lincon that called it a Zeotrope which means “wheel of life.”