Motions

Eadwaerd Muybridge is an English photographer known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. 

Eadwaerd had a very interesting life filled with some astounding moments. He has once committed a murder, invented stop motion animation, had a son, changed his name a lot of times and a lot more. Even after death he's influenced a ton of people, one of them including the great Thomas Edison. He also had an exhibition dedicated to him at the Tote Britain.

In later studies Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. Later a clockwork device was used. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a Zoopraxiscope.

We recreated his stop motion technique by setting off computers one by one as soon as one person went past it.

We had 6 computers and 6 people to capture an image and as soon as the person walking was in the middle of the frame we took a picture, we then compiled all the pictures on one computer and inserted them onto an online website which had turned our pictures into a moving gif.