How can I build an old fashion animation carousel? Is for teaching kids easy animation technichs?
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I would like to teach my kids some good old fashin animation technichs. I remember, many years ago, I saw some kind of cardboard carousel. The kid make several drawings on a long and thin paper, and tape it into the carousel. Then, spin it and look at it move! But how can I build one? Somebody have any idea? Thanks!
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I would like to teach my kids some good old fashin animation technichs. I remember, many years ago, I saw some kind of cardboard carousel. The kid make several drawings on a long and thin paper, and tape it into the carousel. Then, spin it and look at it move! But how can I build one? Somebody have any idea? Thanks!
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there are a number of different kinds of devices – Thaumatrope, Phenakistoscope, Zoetrope, Praxinoscope. I reccomend making a Zoetrope
The device is basically a cylinder with vertical slits around the sides. Around the inside edge of the cylinder there are a series of pictures on the opposite side to the slits. As the cylinder is spun, the user then looks through the slits producing the illusion of motion.
It’ll take a little bit of figureing out. Put between 8-12 slits on the cylinder then measure a piece of paper to fit the circumfrance of the cylinder and devide it into 8-12 squares each square should line up across from a hole.
the holes are put on the top half of the cylinder, the paper fits in the bottom, and you look down at your animation cycle. The last image should lead into the first, a bouncing ball is the best thing to start with. 1 is the ball hitting the ground 5 is the highest point and 8 is right before it hits the ground. The rest are the in between pictures gradually moving towards the next image.
Good luck!
Comment by Rhubix — October 30, 2008 @ 4:22 am