First off: woah... Joseph Plateau must have been on LSD (as mentioned in the article). Also I am changing up the order of this blog. Seeing if I like it better. Today, the order is comment, learned, then question. Bear with me ;D
To be honest, I really disliked all of the GIFs that were included in the article. They were visually displeasing and very surreal (which I really don't like). I am also not very interested in the magic lanterns and phenakistoscopes and all that. I realize that they are pieces of animation history, but still, my opinion remains the same. Just because they are classics doesn't make them special to me.
Turn out that there are a bunch of pre-animation devices that we didn't learn about in class (or at least, I don't think we did... Hm...). Some of them include phenakistoscopes and praxinoscopes (which is sorta like a mixture between a slide show and an old movie). Also, I didn't know that Photoshop was capable of producing GIFs. Well, I can't think of another program off of my head, but Photoshop? Hm, guess I should invest some time into learning more about the Adobe products.
Although I do not regard the classics as anything special, I have to give credit where credit is due. It is amazing how modern animation started out as a visual experiment! I guess I owe sir Joseph Plateau a hardy "thank you" for accidentally starting something that eventually became a big part of my modern life.
Questions hm? Well, I am curious as to just how time consuming these various pre-animations took. I am also curious about how it was that the illustrations could be so easily and successfully reproduced from "frame" to "frame" (for lack of a better term).
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