Thanks to Bobo for helping me make this. How much fun it is to have a collaborator!!
It is an animated gif created from the famous Eadward Muybridge photos. Muybridge is the guy who used photography to prove that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at the same time. After he made the horse photos, he continued on and did many more of people, a flying cockatoo, and others.
Read more about him on wikipedia. I just went there and realized he is a much more interesting than I realized. His history includes several name changes, a murder, and a stage coach accident. They also have animated gif’s of his work-and they are much cleaner than mine—but I have learned how to do them now. I can improve mine and I have some ideas to elaborate on them.
These are the photos I used for my animation:
Galloping horse by Muybridge
January 20, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hi,
You may like to visit my Muybridge website / blog “The Compleat Muybridge” at:
http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk
January 23, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Thanks for the tip. You have collected some wonderful reinterpretations of Muybridge’s work! I particularly like the projections on buildings in his home town. I will have to visit some more and check out more of your links.