Curious; What does Zoetrope mean?

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Disney Toy Story Zoetrope Mystery Pin LGM

 

[erudolf]

There is one in California. Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrIgwSxZDcc

It is kind of live animation with models. It spins and flashes light and creates the illusion of animation.

 

[scottydem]

It's so cool!

 

[swim2sea]

That was amazing. Thanks for sharing, I've never seen one before.

 

[Gloomy]

It's really awesome in person. The animation effects looks alot better when it's not filtered through a camcorder: it bordered on being creepy the first time I saw it. It's one of my favorite parts of DLR. ^_^

-JD

 

[JAllenWood]

I saw my first zoetrope during our last trip to Orlando in October. But it was at Universal's Blue Man Group show. They have a couple on either side of the stage and I had the same reaction when I first saw it activated. A little creepy, but very cool! Of course, this Toy Story zoetrope totally blows theirs out of the water!

 

[figment919]

If you want to see a company put the zoetrope concept to commercial use, look at this URL for "Submedia":

http://www.submediaworld.com/submediaworld/Tunnel_Advertising.html

Mike S.

 

[Trade Winds Pins]

The term zoetrope is from the Greek words zoe, life and τρόπος - tropos, turn. It may be taken to mean wheel of life.

It's basically the beginning of the invention of movies (although zoetropes existed a long time before that).

If you ever come to DLR, go to DCA, in the Animation building in the Hollywood section, they have some of them. They have frames of Disney characters and you can spin them around and see how the animation works, and they also provide long strips of paper and little pencils so you can make your own little animation (you draw yours and insert them into the zoetrope and then spin it to see). Really fun and neat to see it in action.

Hannette

 

[JAllenWood]

Old school zoetrope:

 

[kidup]

Lol funny to see how things change over time