Zoetrope

Zoetrope

The Zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William George Horner. The Zoetrope consists of a cylinder shaped object with pictures around the inside of it. When the cylinder is spun the images appear to move and can be seen through slits in the cylinder. 

Advantages of the Zoetrope:

End result is interesting

Fun to play with

Disadvantages of the Zoetrope:

Somewhat difficult to make

Some well known examples of a Zoetrope are a person riding a horse and a person running, which are both shown as images below.

Below is a video about a Zoetrope

Cel Animation

Cel Animation

A cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames. The reason it is transparent is so the pages can be laid on top of each other to create different layers and backgrounds. the movement of the characters is then made by taking pictures and slightly moving the main object. 

Advantages to using Cel Animation

You do not have to keep redrawing the background.

The background does not shake as much because it's the exact same.

Disadvantages of using Cel Animation

It can be quite costly depending on how many frames you create.

It can also be very time consuming depending on how many frames you create.

The inventors of Cel Animation are Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1910 and the year it was first used was 1914

 Two well known examples of Cel Animation are The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head.

Below are Two examples of cell animation.