The Older Animators Of Stop Motion

Early Animators:

• George Melies - He was one of the earliest stop motion animators in film history, September 26, 1869 – July 26, 1934, he was a french stop motion animator and came into the animation business in the year 1888 worked progressively through his career as an animator.  He is know for such great films such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage both have a unique but strange style to them but they are great and enjoyable for the viewing purposes.

• Winsor McCay - September 26th 1869 – July 26th 1934, Was an American cartoon drawer and was also an animatior who was known most for his incredible drawing/animation video called Gertie the Dinosaur and was also know most for his comic strip on Little Nemo which began in 1905. Winsor was a great artist who turned his own drawings into animations which really set the scene back in the 18 century, His films set a unique standard which was followed up by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Mœbius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware, and Bill Watterson. 

• Lotte Reiniger - Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director, she was born in June 2, 1899, Charlottenburg and died in June 19, 1981, Dettenhausen. She was known for such a strange but interesting style of film called The Adventures of Prince Achmed where it is all silhouette based animations which is a unique style of animation as I have never heard/seen someone make one but it is really interesting and was possibly her best movie/animation she had made alongside with other silhouette based animation which was her style when planning and producing an animation/film.

Persistence Of Vision

Persistence of vision

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina

There are a few kinds of they way they use Persistence of vision, one of them is called zoetrope which is:

A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.

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.

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The second way of Persistence of vision is called Thaumoscope which is:

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due topersistence of vision.

The first use of the thaumatrope was used in the year 1824 when it is a spinning coin which tricks your brain to look that images are moving back and forth, it is used as one example of the early animations when they did not have software to make these sort of animations which is used to this current date with such use of programs such as Adobe Flash which you can create flash animations with to an extent which would be more present rather then making one of these Thaumoscope animations