From pioneering motion-picture-maker Eadweard Muybridge’s historically significant Animal Locomotion study. Specifically the naked guy playing tennis, in zoetrope format.
Ten photographs compiled to recreate the movement, I thought this fascinating post might be appreciated, as you certainly seem to have liked the animatedblacksmiths I posted previously!
As the first animated blacksmith I shared here was rather well-enjoyed, I thought it was time to include another - this time two work together to hammer the hot steel much more efficiently. Again made from a set of sequential photographs taken in the 1870s by Eadweard Muybridge (Animal Locomotion vol II, plate 337).
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Animated GIF created from plate 379a from "Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. 1872-1885 / published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Plates. The plates printed by the Photo-Gravure Company. Philadelphia, 1887.“
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Another moving image animated from fantastic sequential photographs by Muybridge; though they weren’t intended for this purpose when created, it is certainly an interesting way to view them.