THE ZOETROPE!

Moving this to my personal blog from a course blog, my first week at animation grad program USC, USCA SCA DADA. Here is some stuff about zoetropes:

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Hi all, Eric here. Just thought I'd show and tell you some neat zoetrope related stuff. Our Turntable-Ice Cream Carton model's two speeds (33 and 45 rpm) work out to fixed frame rates of 6.66~ and 9 fps, respectively. That means at the faster, smoother 45 rpm rate you get 1 an 1/3 seconds on animation out of each 12 frame strip, and at the slower 33 (which is actually 33 and 1/3 rpm) you get 1.8 seconds. Keep in mind when making your zoetrope strips that our zoetrope spins clockwise so your frames will move sequentially from right to left, not left to right. If you ever happen to be using a zoetrope again that has a different, but fixed rpm (like say one made from a small barrel and a 78rpm record player) the equation is this:

(RPM/60)ƒ=fps

ƒ Standing for total number of frames on your strip (ours are twelve). You can then calculate the number of seconds afforded at a given speed by dividing the total number of frame by the fps (ƒ/fps). For the sake of illustration 45rpm:

(45/60)12=9

12/9=1.3333...

Now, enough of all that, here is a link to an ad Sony made featuring the largest zoetrope in the history of forever, the Bravia-Drome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvYI5q-Bl4&feature=fvw

and here's another one and two of them making the thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCltdyiLyIc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2tce9dklI&NR=1

Força!

The entire point of these ads, and indeed an important, seemingly simple point about animation in film that we can all learn from the zoetrope is this: Faster Frame Rate=Smoother Motion. I realize that might seem pretty obvious, but hey, they built a ten tonne flashing thingamabob in Italy to prove that point.

I have some other links, but they are of totally non zoetrope related nature, so I'll bring up at a later time... Yep. See ya later!"

Current works busy and coming up etc.

We'll soon be having a lot more activity here, including general rantings and ravings on all the current projects, and more videos. More work will be being done over at the companion blogs (links later) but there's a lot of of crazy new stuff in the works.

A full épocalypse films site launch is being worked on (very early stages) which will initially, and ironically, not be primarily about film initially, and will mainly consist of the Cinecidal Ideation projects (which are not going to start off video or motion picture, but short stories written by myself and others, and the primary comic).

Then, I assume, I'll have to start remembering to come by these places, and introduce all the pertinent parties and peoples to you wonderful hypothetical blog readers.

for now though, TTFN

see that past sentence? REDUNDANCY

épocalypse films and george westberg present: 28 Days Countdown to NYZ

This is a vidcast series we're doing for George's film, and as the beginning of what will hopefully be a lot of great supplemental material documentary and nonfiction collaborations with my friends and classmates at NYU for Cinecidal Ideation, my new multimedia genre ignoring webseries based on my own short screenplay of the same name (more on that coming soon). Also, iZombie is still up:


iZombie Threadless Submission by ~EpoCALYPsE on deviantART

And in other news, my new video with Project Trio, "Fast" is now the spotlight under music at Youtube! Badass everyone, we did done good!

So go check that out for scoring if you haven't already. More to come and more updates here and on the other blogs post haste, except slightly more post. Goodnight, everybody!

(except you China, Japan and Australia, to you I say good morning.)

iZombie Teeshirt, now up for scoring at threadless.com!

So the design iZombie is finally up for scoring at Threadless.com! I'm going to make a youtube video to promote as well, using some footage Night of the Living Dead, which is, thank you merciful internet, public domain, hopefully to be up tomorrow. I will also start posting more status updates and project updates soon, including a new vidcast I'm co-producing for my friend George Westberg's film, NYZ (which, in turn, Inspired iZombie). Please go score it up (5$$) and help us get some much needed finances for our projects.

Here's a copy of the threadless flash presentation I put together:


iZombie Threadless Submission by ~EpoCALYPsE on deviantART

Follow it to my deviantart to find out more about the entire process that went into making the design.

Project Trio - FAST

New video I put together for Project Trio up at their youtube page! More info on their new cd in a slight edit tomorrow. PEACE!

iZombie: forthecoming tee design inspired by friends film.

iZombie complete version by ~EpoCALYPsE on deviantART

So this design will soon be posted at threadless, just giving you all an advanced look at it. More regular and involved posts coming later this week. Check out my friend who originally commissioned the design as a poster for his film before we decided to use it as a tee shirt:

http://www.georgewestberg.com/

Hi there.

I have decided to start updating and managing the blogs that I set up ages and ages ago, so here we go. PEACE

-ep