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Animation Night 2023
Filmstill How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation
How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation
Tess Martin
Tess Martin introduces us to a technique for producing animation loops: Make a drawing, take a rotating disc, connect it to a camera – and your phonotrope is ready.
Filmstill How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation

How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation

How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation
Tess Martin
Animation Night 2023
Documentary Film
Netherlands
2019
8 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A device that can create the illusion of movement can be built by coupling the speed of a rotating disc to the recording frame rate of a camera. This so-called phonotrope is a contemporary version of the phenakistiscope. In her how-to video, Tess Martin explains how this technique works and how it was used in her film “Orbit.”

Franka Sachse

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Tess Martin
Cinematographer
Tess Martin, Oana Clitan
Producer
Tess Martin
Score
Podington Bear