Early types of animation (September 2013 - October 2013)

Early types of animation

We see animation as a video but it's the moving images that makes us think it's video when it's not. Moving images are when every image has been took after single move you make and it has to be accurate and entertaining at the same time. It should be just as creative and unrealistic as a cartoon because that's what animation is about by doing this creates a good animation.

Animation are one of the things of entertainment that has existed for hundreds of years and it has changed overtime. Now 3d animations are more complicated and longer than ever some have become one of the highest grossing films of the year.

The early types of are:

• Persistence Of Vision.
• Zoetrope.
• Phenakitoscope.
• Kinetoscope.
• Mutoscope.

Persistence of vision is relevant to animation like Eadweard Muybridge, who did early studies in photography that led animation and motion pictures. 

The concept is simple, he used flying images so he can create the illusion of motion from still images only. The images are presented at an average rate of 18-24 frames per second.

Here is an example of one:

Zoetrope is a 19th century optical toy that is in a cylinder shape with loads of pictures of the inner surface that if you rotate it or spin it the images on it look like their moving animation.

Below is an example:

Phenakistoscope is one of my favorite early type of animation because is it like persistence of vision where the animation uses an illusion of movement. A great example of someone who made Phenakistoscopes as early as 1893 was Eadweard Muybridge.

 An example of his work below:

A few other examples of Phenakistoscope that I found on the internet:

This is really cool I like the faces on it I would like to make one like that.

This one has been made into a gif.

Kinetoscope - this I'm definitely familiar with because I had a look at one in a museum before and I really liked it but it can get annoying when you look at it too much well it is for me anyways.

Kinetoscope it's quiet complicated how this is been made but it's a motion picture device that people can only see if they are seen it through a peephole. It is an early motion picture device that was mainly designed for one individual at a time to view a film.

It wasn't a movie projector but the idea of a projector came from this and the images show from a strip of images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. It was first invented by Thomas Edison as early as 1888 and then alot of others at that time were making Kinetoscope movies.

Examples of Kinetoscope below:

Some museums still have this but it's very rare to find now.

Mutoscope is an interesting one because I never knew something like this even existed it's like Kinetoscope that Thomas Edison made in 1888 but this one came after it was made by Herman Casler in 1894.

Mutoscope is an early picture motion device and only one person can view it at a time but it didn't project on a screen it's cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope. It worked like a flip book and played movies such as Charlie Chaplin etc.

It quickly became popular and then developed in to a coin in the slot machine as some people call it or even a (peep-show). 

This was more popular than the Kinetoscope because more were around at the time places where it attracts families in such as the park, the beach and museums.

 Examples of Mutoscope below:

 Inside a Mutoscope as you can see it works like a flipbook.

Roughly how a Mutoscope works.

What you see in a Mutoscope and Charlie Chaplin was really popular at the time, people would line up to see this. 

it's very rare to find nowadays I'm not sure if it still exists in museums.