Persistence of Vision

Persistence of vision is a commonly-accepted although somewhat controversial theory which states that the human eye always retains images for a fraction of a second This means that everything we see is a slight blend of what is happening now and what happened a fraction of a second ago.

Zeotropes

A zoetrope is a tool consisting of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.

Claymation Animation

Clay animation is another form of stop motion animation. All the animated pieces are deformable made of a flexible substances, usually Plasticine clay. In clay animation, one of the many forms of stop-motion animation, each object is sculpted in clay or make your own character.

Will Vinton is an American director and producer for animated films.He is also owner of an animation studio where he works with clay artists to create clay animations. Claymation involves using objects or characters sculpted from clay or other moldable material, and then taking a series of still pictures which creates movement. This is come Will vintons work that he had done in 1989 called the Californian raisins.

Clay animation has poitive advantges like the clay can be changed in to many form or even to morph to make new characters. It also gives a really good 3d effect. There are also disadvantages of using claymation animation, trying to make the same chacter again would be hard as the plasticine clay is not good to do that.

Like all the other animation I have also done 15 second claymation video . This is the video: