So here is the challenge. I've been experimenting with making little animations, flip-books or whatever you want to call it, on my gif program. Easy enough to do, but the only photos in sequence I can find are Muybridge animal/human studies.
So what you do is start with this, a whole lot of small black-and-white photos on a gridwork background.
Then you start copying them. You'll need, for this one, only twelve copies. Then you crop out each individual photo from the sheet, and number it.
Okay.
(some time later)
What you have is. . .
And what you finally have is:
Not the smoothest animation, but flight is harder to capture somehow. A running animal seems to give the eye a sense of continuity, so that we fill in the missing frames. This one, well. . . It doesn't have the continuous motion of a horse running along a track, that sense of endlessness, since flight is so erratic and moves upward. But all things considered, it was a pretty boring and nearly pointless exercise in Muybridge animation.
Should I try a little naked running man, next?
