New Aardman Animate It! Studio open Kids City area at Think-tank, Birmingham Science Museum
The new Aardman Animate It! Studio will open at Think-tank, Birmingham Science Museum on this April 12, 2014
February 24th, 2014
The new Aardman Animate It! Studio will open at Think-tank, Birmingham Science Museum on this April 12, 2014. In the highly popular Kids City area at Thinktank, the children and adults can make their own ‘Shaun the Sheep’ style stop motion movie in the latest attraction. The Animate It! Studio will give an opportunity to become a real life film director and create their own stop motion film. In this studio real people will be the model characters.
In this studio, Visitors are invited to make a short film on the human sized green screen studio, and once their film is finished, they can ‘broadcast’ it to a screen in the gallery. Beside the studio, there will be a number of hands on play stations and Shaun the Sheep inspired fun actions for all to enjoy. Birmingham Museums work constantly to prolong and improve the museums offer for visitants, and this new studio is one of a number of the most recent growths.
For further details visit www.birminghammuseums.org.uk.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
