zoetropes
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The Best Fidget Spinner Has An Animated Cat Inside
Video: Thanks to Jonathan Odom, a clever designer and builder who’s created everything from animatronics for films to museum exhibits, the fidget spinner has just taken a giant leap forward. Odom created One Spinner To Rule Them All: One with an animated cat video that comes to life when you flick it.
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The Posable Figures On This Spinning Zoetrope Make Anyone An Animator
It takes a tremendous amount of patience to create an entire film using stop-motion animation techniques, but this simple spinning zoetrope toy makes the process a whole lot easier. You’ll only end up with about a second of animation after posing all ten of the bendable figures, but the results are still really satisfying given…
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This Online Archive Collects 19th Century “GIFs” Of Yore
Phenakistoscopes, praxinoscopes and zoetropes, oh my! Richard Balzer, a 69-year-old New York native, has cultivated a remarkable online museum of early animations and optical toys of the 18th and 19th centuries.
