Making a zoetrope

Materials needed -

  1. Round lid or tin

  2. Black paper

  3. White paper

  4. Printer

  5. Scalpel

  6. Marble

  7. Masking Tape

  8. Scissors

Zoetrope prototype

I tried to make a prototype Zoetrope to see what would need to be done when I make the real thing. In this case, i am really glad that I made this as I was able to see the mistakes I made so that I could avoid these when making the real thing.

Some of the mistakes I made where -

  • Cutting the slots too wide, this made the animation come out really blurry and unclear.

  • The size of the image strip was too big even though I did measure it correctly, so I found out that it was a technical error and I had not printed it to it’s actual size.

  • I realized it would need a motor of some sort, as spinning it was not fast enough to see the image.

These are all things I will be a lot more weary of when making the real and bigger version of this.