How to Create a Zoetrope

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Watch more Animation Techniques videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/169724-... • For a fun novelty project, try making a zoetrope at home. • Step 1: Plan the animation • Plan out your animation. Assume there will be about 12 cells, or steps. • Tip • The best animations for a zoetrope are cyclical, like a man walking, or a sun rising and setting. • Step 2: Place the lid flat side down • Place the can lid flat side down. • Step 3: Roll white paper into a tube and place into lid • Gently roll the white paper into a tube and place it into the lid, so that the rim of the lid supports the tube of paper. You will have a drum with an open end and the lid as the bottom. • Step 4: Mark where the inside edge overlaps the paper • Use the pencil to lightly mark where the inside edge overlaps the inside of the white paper. • Step 5: Measure the white paper • Lay the white paper flat and measure the distance from the inside edge of the sheet to the mark. This will be the longer distance to the mark you made. • Step 6: Divide by the number of steps in your animation • Divide the distance by 12 — or the number of steps in your animation — and mark a light line at the bottom edge of the paper to divide each cell. • Step 7: Sketch out the animation • Sketch out your animation, beginning at the left cell and moving right along each cell. • Step 8: Return the paper to the lid • Gently re-roll the white sheet and place it back into the lid to make sure all of your cells will be shown. • Step 9: Place black paper flat with white paper on top • Place the black paper flat with the white paper on top and flush along the long edge. Make sure the light lines you made in Step 6 run along the middle of the black sheet. • Step 10: Draw a line down the length of the black paper • Use the edge of the white paper to draw a line down the length of the black paper. It will run down the middle. • Step 11: Continue the marks you made onto the black sheet • Continue the marks you made on the white sheet onto the black sheet. They should intersect the long line you made in Step 9. • Step 12: Move the white sheet • Move the white sheet to 1/8 inside of the opposite edge of the black sheet. • Step 13: Extend the lines • Extend the lines again from the white sheet to the edge of the black sheet. Remove the white sheet. • Tip • The sets of small lines you copied on to the black sheet should line up all the way down the black sheet. • Step 14: Connect the sets of marks • Use the ruler and pencil to connect the sets of marks you made on the black sheet. • Step 15: Cut windows • Using the lines you made in Step 13 as guides, cut windows out of the black sheet with craft knife. The windows should start in the middle, run about 1 down the line and be about 1/8 wide. • Step 16: Cut an X in the lid’s center • Carefully find the center of the lid and cut a 3/8 -wide X in the top. • Step 17: Run a bead of glue on the inside of the lid’s lip • Run a light bead of glue along the inside edge of the lid's lip. • Step 18: Roll the black paper and place it in the lid • Gently roll the black sheet and place it in the lid so that the slits are furthest away from the lid. • Step 19: Push the black paper against the glue and let dry • Gently press the black paper out against the lid's lip so that it bonds to the glue on the lid. Set aside to dry. • Step 20: Poke the pencil down through the X • Poke the pencil down through the X you had cut so that it sticks out the bottom. • Tip • The brass eraser holder should snag on the cut edges of the lid’s X. • Step 21: Roll the white sheet and place inside the drum • Gently roll the white sheet and place it inside the drum so the bottom of the animation rests on the lid. • Step 22: Rotate the drum • Clasp the pencil between your palms and slowly rotate the drum while looking through windows from the outside in to the opposite side of the drum. • Step 23: Watch your animation • Watch your animation in glorious Zoetrope vision. • Did You Know? • A convection-powered version of the zoetrope was built around 180 A.D. by the Chinese inventor Ting Huan.

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