2d Animation

Creating the script for my animation was the first thing i had to bare in mind before i actually created so i could work out in my head roughly how long each slide needed to be. So to do this i decided to look at the reasearch i had done in the history of animation and use that as a guidline throughout my slide, for example. i used the detailes included in the research such as, Pictures, Names and year. Also i included a breif of how some of them were used and how they worked. The basic script for this was as followes.

“The History of animation.”

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}  The first successful animation device was the Phenakistoscope, although there were many other illusion toys at the time, the Phenakistoscope used pictures on one side that when spun could be viewed from a slit on the opposite side, creating the illusion of movement (animation) .

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}  It was two year later that William Horner released the zoetrope.  Horner had originally named it the Daedalum however it was released as the zoetrope.

}  This device was based on joseph plateau's Phenakistoscope, But instead of using a mirror with only one viewing hole, Horner's device allowed multiple viewer's at the same time. The zoetrope worked by having equally spaced slots around the outside, then once the drum is spun the pictures would spin, the faster the drum was spun the smoother the images would appear to move.

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}  It was not until 1879, 40 years after the zoetrope was invented, that Emile Reynaud invented the praxinoscope. The praxinoscope was An optical toy that would give the illusion of movement to characters in a setting,  the only difference from the Zoetrope was the fact that you viewed the images through mirrors in the centre of the device instead of through slots in the sides.

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}  1894 is when the animation industry really began, with Thomas Edison's invention of the kinetoscope. The kinetoscope was a projector that had images on glass, it works by  conveying a strip of film with sequential images over a light source with a high speed shutter.  When in action the kinetoscope would project the images creating the illusion of movement.

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}  In 1894 Another peepshow device similar to the kinetoscope arrived. The Mutoscope invented by Herman Casler worked using a flip-card device to provide the motion picture.

}  Needing a camera he turned to his friend W.K.L Dickson who, unhappy at the Edison Company cooperates and with several others they form the American Mutoscope Company.

Obviosuly when it came to making the final infomation some of the detail was cut down inorder to fit it the the time guide i had (60 seconds) Also only three of the selected 5 were used in the final peice.