In Motion
- Year
- 2020-2021
- Artist
- Siena Smania
- University
- Arizona State University
- Major
- Astrobiology
- Title
- In Motion
- Genre/Medium
- Animation
- Category
- digital video
- Current Location
- Digital Only
- Description
- When I was a child, my family used to travel a lot. Whenever we went to a new place, we were bound to find an antique store. One item that I always found astonishing were these antique spinning animations called zoetropes. Zoetropes were one of the several pre-film animations that displayed the illusion of motion. I was in awe the first time I saw the wheel spun to create an animation similar to old cartoons I had seen on TV. It captured my imagination, just as I hope to capture the imaginations of many with this Psyche-inspired zoetrope. Figuring out how to construct a zoetrope that could spin fast enough to produce an image in motion was half of the project itself. In the end, I actually ended up using a spinning cake stand, which is typically used for icing and displaying cakes. For drawing each of the frames, I used the digital art tool Procreate.
- Artwork Link
- https://psyche.asu.edu/gallery/in-motion/
Part of In Motion