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Styles: animation techniques (next batch)

Styles 22 to 33 come from classic animation techniques. Each one is a way of moving through a page, not a skin.

Shipped: flipbook, pop-up-book, pinscreen, sand, zoetrope. Dropped: rotoscope (styles 22 to 27)

Style Technique What moving through the page does
pinscreen Alexeieff and Parker's pinscreen (1933) A wall of pins whose shadows form the image; scroll pushes the pins into the next picture, the pointer presses them
sand Sand animation (Caroline Leaf) One continuous sand picture; your swipe or scroll brushes it into the next scene
zoetrope Zoetrope, praxinoscope A spinning drum; the faster you scroll, the more it comes alive, slow down and it breaks into frames
flipbook Flipbook You thumb the corner and the page flips through drawn frames
pop-up-book Pop-up book Each section is a spread; open it and the scene folds up out of the page
rotoscope Rotoscoping (A Scanner Darkly, "Take On Me") Film and images traced live into ink; real motion with a hand-drawn line

To do (styles 28 to 33)

  • stop-motion (shipped): everything moves on twos with a slight jitter (paper, felt, real objects nudged per frame).
  • paper-cut-out (shipped): flat paper layers on hinged joints, Monty Python and Lotte Reiniger silhouettes.
  • paint-on-glass (shipped): one living painting that morphs scene to scene with visible brushstrokes (Petrov, Loving Vincent).
  • multiplane (shipped): Disney's multiplane camera, painted glass layers with real depth and focus pulls between them.
  • scratch-film (shipped): drawn and scratched straight onto film stock (McLaren, Len Lye), jittery, colourful, synced to sound.
  • smears (shipped): Spider-Verse timing, on twos, smear frames, comic textures and mixed media.

Parked

Saul Bass titles, ink wash (sumi-e), whiteboard doodle.