Cut Out Animation Evaluation

First you need to get a magazine/newspaper/comic book and select the images you want to use for your stop motion. Next you have to come up with a storyboard for your video so it is planned well and everyone knows what your doing. Once you have finished the storyboard and cut out the pictures for your stop motion you need to get a camera, we used a webcam. Set it up on a stand so it doesn't move and ruin your footage. Now you are ready to start, so you could either do this manually or use a software that does it for you, which is what we done with iStopMotion. Editing is pretty simple as all you really need to do is add sound effects.
The pioneers of the original cut out animation are Terry Gilliam and Lotte Reiniger. Terry Gilliam done the  Monty Python animations and Lotte Reiniger done the Jack and the Beanstalk animation.

The positives of this technique are that it's very simple and easy to do and it's actually quite fun and if done properly with no mistakes it will always be funny.
The negatives of this cut out animation technique is that the process is very long and you need to be patient because there can be up to 25 frames per second, so it is indeed very time consuming.

Overall I think my animation was very successful, we uploaded our work to a website and it got over 48,000 Views and counting, and from the comments a lot of the viewers seemed to enjoy it.

If I were to compare my work to a someone like Terry Gilliam I would say that the are both funny and entertaining to watch the only difference is that his is more professional and edited better, his work is also a lot longer than mine which shows is commitment and dedication towards Cut out animation.

Cut Out Animation

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is an English Photographer born on the 9th of April 1830. He is mostly known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.


In 1872, former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, had taken a position on a popularly-debated question of the day: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during the trot. Up until this time, most paintings of horses at full gallop showed the front legs extended forward and the hind legs extended to the rear. Stanford sided with this assertion, called "unsupported transit", and took it upon himself to prove it scientifically. Stanford sought out Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.

In later studies Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. Later a clockwork device was used. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a Zoopraxiscope. This in fact became an intermediate stage towards motion pictures or cinematography.

We recreated his experiment by using multiple webcams and everyone would take a picture at a set time of the moving object(ruth and iman).

Frames per second is that amount of pictures in one second, the more fps the smoother the footage is and the easier it is to edit it.

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Eadweard J. Muybridge

1. Edward James Muggeridge changed his name several times.
2. He killed the Major.
3. Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed.
4. An English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States.
5. The house has a British Film Institute commemorative plaque on the outside wall which was unveiled in 2004.
6.  Muybridge was cremated and his ashes interred at Woking in Surrey.

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Zoetrope

The persistence of vision refers to the length of time the retina (the "screen" at the back of our eyes which is sensitive to light) retains an image. If we see a light flash every tenth of a second or less, we perceive it as continuous.


Well it’s a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.
It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs.
As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture.


Its good for producing short animations, however since the device itself is very small that means you only get to produce short animations.

Zoetrope

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