Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is a British photographer who is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion, which uses several cameras to capture motion.

This image is showing Eadweard's most famous motion capture using the zoopraxiscope, which is a series of images captured on a large camera which uses glass plates in a line which is triggered by a thread once the horse passes by. The images are then copied in a form of silhouettes onto a disk and is viewed in the zoopraxiscope.  

I was able to re- create my own version of the Eadweard Muybridge technique using the software "iStopMotion" by capturing each individual frame and playing them back in a zoopraxiscope motion.

Firstly: you open iStopMotion and set up what you will be doing/using in your animation.

Secondly: you select the red button every time a movement is being made (trying to make the movement as close as possible)

Thirdly: after all the images have been captured you press the play button to show the images altogether showing the animation.

Finally you export the animation by going to file and selecting export and then changing the video format for better quality.

This animation has been captured using 12 frames per second.