Eadweard Muybridge is the inventor of the zoopraxiscope, 1879. After being commissioned by racehorse owner Leland Stanford, to uncover the commonly debated question; ‘whether all four horses hooves are off the ground at the same time during the trot’, he started on a five year project to come up with an answer.
The zoopraxiscope is a process of projecting animated versions of still images as a short movie chain. Muybridge used a custom shutter to give short exposures, the cameras were arranged along the track where the horse would gallop and trigger them to take sequential photographs.
Eadweard Muybridge is declared, by both animation and cinema to be the ‘father of the forms’, he was the revelation of the fundamental technicalities of motion picture fabrication, long before technology had been invented. Even advanced computer generated animation goes through a realisation process in still image form before movie sequence assembling.
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