Zoetrope- Making stages

 

After watching a few tutorial videos on youtube, i began making my Zoetrope. I first drew out the pigeon flight stages onto traacing paper- then backed it with black card and cut them out. Next i measured the circumference of the light shade and equally divided the strip into sections allocated for each image.

 

 

I arranged the silhouettes into position on the bottom half of the shade and drew out 1cm slits for the top half of the shade, at intervals where each section joined.

 

Once the slits were cut out the tracing paper strip was removed and images painted into place..then dowling attatched to the lamp fitting, enabling the zoetrope to spin revealing the moving image once viewed through the slits made.

Once i cut out the drawings of pigeon flight stages i used the templates to paint the inside of the zoetrope-

 

Touching up any rough edges..

 

The pole created to allow the zoetrope to spin freely and detatched from any stands to ensure that the eyelevel and viewing of the moving image is adjustable.

 



Finished zoetrope...