persistance of vision- the zoetrope

Last week we were asked to make a zoetrope. The oldest form of a moving picture; using bristol, illustration board, markers, dowels, and some tape I made my own zoetrope. The two slides i made to move around were simple, but fun to draw. Each was a series of 8 pictures slowly moving so that when you rotate the zoetrope it appears to move. The first was a robot jumping up and down and doing a cartwheel, it was definitely my favorite of the two. The second was a heart morphing into the state of new jersey, and with each frame it got darker and darker. I really enjoyed this project because it easily amused me everytime i turned the zoetrope and made me feel like a kid again.

Above is one of the better zoetrope videos i found, the concept is really cool and it works really well.