#zoetrope

[lobsterflaws]

Slaytober Day 17

The Stranger

[shihlun]

Jean-Luc Godard

- Une bonne à tout faire / An All Round Maid

1981

[animatingforfun]

Made a zoetrope that’ll be showcased on the vinyl soundtrack for the animated short-film Forevergreen.

The video shows some behind-the-scenes tests, in-progress animation, and the final zoetrope design.

The designs are based on Don Clark/Invisible Creature’s graphic art style seen in the short-film’s end credits.

I had never made a zoetrope before, let alone one on a vinyl record, so it was fun figuring out the math. This 12” vinyl plays at 33.3 rpm on the turntable so I knew the rate of spin, and for the zoetrope “shutter”, I chose a 30fps “shutter” to make it easier if viewed through a phone since most smart phone cameras record video at 30fps by default.

With that information, I knew I would be animating at 30fps, and I found that playing with the number of sub-divisions on the disc could give the illusion that the cycled animation appears stationary (54 subd) or travels clockwise (55 or greater) or counter-clockwise (53 or less). The factors of that subdivision number inform the frames of the cycled animation. For example, at 52 subdivisions, the animation cycle could be either 4, 13, or 26 frames long, and it’ll appear to travel counter-clockwise.

Using After Effects, I created a series of nested comps for different subdivisions so all I had to do was drop the animation file in the desired premade comp and it would output the subdivided disc layout.

From there, the process resembled a standard animation production of planning out the scenes, laying out the composition, and animating. Character animation cycles were done in TV Paint and Callipeg, and for the areas involving paths across subdivisions, they were keyed in After Effects.

[rel312]

Absolutely was not expecting the new season of Phineas and Ferb to have a zoetrope fall in love with a Ferris wheel, get saved by zoetrope god, and then have merry go round babies with said Ferris wheel but here we are

[nocturnal-stims]

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[alexidoesart]

The Fox Fairy/Spirit has a lot of variations throughout East Asia. I chose to base mine off the Huli Jing, and Tang dynasty dress. The shapeshifting, predominately female nine tailed fox also takes the form of a Kistune in Japan and Kumiho in Korea.

One of my favourite interpretations of this being is Good Hunting, the short story by Ken Liu (though not the Love, Death, and Robots inspired short animation! :( )

Original art by me! More phenakistoscopes on my page.

[dr-fizzovich]

WHY ARE THEY SO CUTE AUGHHHH🥹🥹 EEPY CUTIES AUGHH AUGHH OMGAAAA I'M GONNA SOBBBBB

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