Creating our own animation

During this session we were asked to devise an animation without the add of any modern technology. The means of creating animation prior to to modern ages is creations such as a zoetrope.

'The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.'(Taken from Zoetrope History website, http://zoetrope.org/zoetrope-history)

There was difficulties in trying to create this in that the cyclinder had to have a perfect curviture for the effect to seem clear along with all the incistions within the cyclinder had to perfectly line up with the images. This took a few attemps to get correct. Here is a video of my finished product. ENJOY!!