Animation Faqs

Hi I’m Zeee and we would not go into the details of me; cuz we are here to talk animation (as the blog name suggests). Hmmm… So.. after watching all the Tom n Jerry episodes, the Shrek sequels, the Dragonball Z series etc. etc. I’m sure most of you are aware of what animation is or at least what all that you see can be termed as animation;but not all of us know about it. So this specific article goes out to those who are unaware of what animation is and also to those who are completely aware of it but they simply love animation so much that they would sit down to read anything and everything about it inspite of knowing all of it.

Well, it all began in around 130 A.D. when a Greek astronomer Ptolemy discovered this principle called Persistence of Vision. It states that the retina in the eye retains the image in the form of light entering the aperture of the eye for one-tenth of a second; and if consecutive images are projected on the retina within one-tenth of a second then this causes the images to superimpose, thus giving us a sense of motion of the object in the image.

Okay I’ll simplify this, do you remember playing with this toy in your childhood, the bird drawn on one side and cage drawn on the other and when you twirl the string faster you see the bird in the cage. Walk down memory lane and see if u can picture it in your hand; well what you played with is called a thaumatrope and that was your first interaction with animation.