This man from late 19th century instigated the creation of motion picture, inspiring future film industries through his creative technique of moving picture formed into an animation using a zoopraxiscope he invented. What this device basically does is rapidly project images of stop motion movements after their individual motions are imprinted photographically onto a glass disk then coloured by hand.The link below shows how he would used this method for creating the horse in motion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnxy_5Bpnc
What the reason was for this creative method started through having a different perspective in how motion should be viewed to get a big understanding of the subject matter. This would be better than seeing one form of movement in a still.
A great example of birthing this technique came when he was placed into a bet by racehorse owner Leland Stanford where people speculated and constantly opinionated whether a single horse movement should be shown from one point of view and show how to prove that all legs of a horse can leave the ground from a scientific perspective. This likely happened when he observed portraits showing all four hooves of horses leaving the ground, presented in one galloping still motion and believing this is not how people should see horses.
Even after his death, his professional practice and fundamental approach has been used in films to this day. One popular example of this came from John Gaeta using the principles of murbridge's zoopraxiscope to film the famous bullet time visual effect to film sequences in the first matrix film including the roof scene.Click here for the see scene.
The web link below this line shows how those scenes in matrix are produced through the fundamental stages, then the final cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPNBdDNZbYk
This sort of example that is approached to film making can be greatly executed with the use of equipment that wasn't available for eadweard. This also shows that this technique can be improved to suit the formula in each film's theme and further inspire other film corporations and directors to do the same approach in their own media besides just films like tv shows or animations.
Click here to see how other industries stylized bullet time through their own approach.
Another example of zoopraxiscope influencing diverse people is Harold Eugene edgerton as muybridge's idealism greatly inspired his work through high speed photography to film slow motion or fast sequences. The fundamentals of zoopraxiscope pioneered him to be known as the man who can freeze time in his film making. This can be shown from his use of a stroboscope which is a camera that captures film in the form of multiple images placed onto a single photo plate. This means the plate is capturing individual exposure shots in motion whilst on top of the stroboscope's lens just like the zooprxiscope. From the help of eadweard Muybridge's method, Harold furthered the process through using each motion shot to appear in slow motion using a electronic flash, allowing slow motion to be captured in place to how he want the film direction to go.
- http://www.biography.com/people/eadweard-muybridge-9419513#photographic-discovery
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/
- http://blog.europeana.eu/2012/04/the-science-of-movement-eadweard-muybridge/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope
- http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/videos/hee-fv-038
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140722-the-man-who-froze-the-world
- http://makezine.com/projects/make-24/stroboscope/
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