[First Year] Induction Week
Covered today:
Induction to Maker Space
Today was inducted into the Maker Space where I sat through a slideshow on Health & Safety and got ticked off the sheet to get the permission to use the room. That room could be a death trap if I wasn't told these rules.
Making a Zoetrope
As my first craft in the maker space was to make a Zoetrope. It wasn’t the way I did it during Disneyland Paris attraction ‘Art of Disney Animation’ where I got a thin strip of paper and drew pictures along it. Then I put it in a drum like a dryer for clothes.
But today I got a template on from Kevin Ingham which was a circle with twelve tabs to draw my face animation on. Then I used spray adhesive to stick some black card to the template using a fumes extractor to get rid of the toxic fumes from the spray.
After sticking the template to the card that made the zoetrope stronger. I cut it out but not very well as I wanted. Folded the tabs to put the paper template inside the contraption (using BlueTrack) that another staff member made for this situation.
I watched back the result first through my eyes then my phone but the animation was very bad quality and blurry and didn’t work.
If I could do it again I would do it using the method from Disneyland Paris which would work better as seen from many examples over the years. My smiley face worked better in the Praxinoscope I used at Trafford College.
