By positioning my camera in a fixed place (in front of the zoetrope) I was able to use the turning mechanism of the record player to take a photo of each of the 10 frames. I then put these into a stop motion program and the result was far more impressive that my zoetrope. The technique was essentially the same, instead of taking...
33RPM is definitely the best of the three speeds as the image is the clearest and you can see the motion that I am trying to create. Although my zoetrope has worked fairly well, I still this that there could be a better way to record the moment that I'm trying to achieve. Perhaps stop motion? Stop motion would allow me to record...
This next test is at 45RPM and does seem to look a lot less blurred than the 75. But perhaps I can do better; the image may be at the clearest if the speed is down to 33RPM. ...
For the first test I decided to start at the highest speed, 78RPM, so I set my strobe to 13 (chart below). As you can see, the image is blurred, so I'll have to try bringing the speed down. ...
As I moulded the hands around the wire, it was easier and far sturdier than trying to attach the wire all separately to the hand and the record. However, there was still the issue of sturdily attaching the hands to the record itself. I first tried large balls of blue tac; this failed as the speed of the record player sent them flying. I...
I have decided to take the ambitious move of sculpting all 10 sculptures for my zoetrope. This takes away from my concept (one true original and the rest fakes) however, in order for the animation to be effective, all of the hands must be exactly/similarly the same. To do this I will use the exact same quantities, 7cm for the palm/ball of the...
Using the section of Caravaggio's painting (below) I have attempted to sculpt the hand of Saint Thomas out of polymer clay. Because of the size of the hand I didn't need to use wire underneath as support before putting in the oven to harden. After the hand was baked, it was hard enough to make a cast from. I first tried to dip the...
After doing the first two tests of the zoetropes, I have found that my sculptures must be larger and more raised; as my research displays (horse animation). I have decided to begin making my first relic zoetrope; beginning with St 'doubting' Thomas. As you can see from my drawing above, I will start with a simple animation of and up-down motion, a pointing...
This next test will still focus on the same principle of animating small balls. However this time I have increased the number of sculptures, adjusted the strobe speed and changed the type of animation. Rather than having 12 balls increasing in size, I decided to use 20 balls emerging from the floor, as it were. The new calculation would be 360/20=18degrees. So this time...
My plan of making a turntable with an adjustable speed motor failed. I had to connect the battery holder and the motor to the circuit board; this did achieve a spinning motion, however this wasn't nearly fast enough and it soon stopped. The turntable needed to rotate around 30 RPM; and after research into this type of mechanism, I found that record players...
As we read from my earlier research, 'The Guardian, Christian relics on display', the shroud of Turin is supposedly the burial shroud of Christ showing an impression of his face; this was discredited as a medieval forgery. I wanted to explore this relic further as the 'forgery' seems to have been far too technical for a medieval man; the shroud appears to be...
