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Pixar’s Toy Story Zoetrope revisits this concept by presenting familiar Pixar characters from the films Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in an updated version of the 19th century illusion-of-movement device.
The animation is based on an eighteen-frame cycle, with each frame of the cycle represented by a three-dimensional character figurine, or model. These figurines are mounted at precise points on the disk, which spins at the speed of one revolution per second. A strobe light, triggered at each frame, freezes the motion, enabling the human eye to perceive each frame of the character’s motion as a single image. When the eye sees all these frozen images in quick succession, the effect of “apparent motion” strings them together to create the illusion of life.
The Toy Story Zoetrope, assembled by artists Gregory Barsamian and Toshio Iwai, was inspired by the three-dimensional Totoro Zoetrope created by Pixar’s friends at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan.