{"id":298,"date":"2024-09-30T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/?post_type=content&#038;p=298"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:44:16","slug":"how-to-animate-photos","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Animate Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-c4582066 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-299 content type-content status-publish hentry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><h3 style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/how-to-make-a-zoetrope\/\" target=\"_self\" >How to make a zoetrope<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-300 content type-content status-publish hentry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><h3 style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/photographic-flip-books\/\" target=\"_self\" >Photographic Flip Books<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-301 content type-content status-publish hentry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><h3 style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/photographic-thaumatropes\/\" target=\"_self\" >Photographic Thaumatropes<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-302 content type-content status-publish hentry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><h3 style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/stereo-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Stereo Cards<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p>While several computer programs allow you to turn still photographic images into animated films, the process is also possible using simple handheld devices. Optical toys popular in the 19th century brought to life still photographic images. The thaumatrope (a card that spins), flip book, and zoetrope (a drum that spins) depend on the persistence of vision to blend individual images, thereby creating the illusion of continuous motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our web resources,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/how-to-make-a-zoetrope\/\" title=\"How to make a zoetrope\">How to Make a Zoetrope<\/a><\/em>\u00a0provides detailed information to build a zoetrope drum and animation strips. You can watch examples of thaumatropes and flpbooks in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/photographic-flip-books\/\" title=\"Photographic Flip Books\">Photographic Flip Books<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reframingphotography.com\/page\/photographic-thaumatropes\"><em>Photographic Thaumatropes<\/em><\/a>, and can view historic and contemporary stereo cards in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/photo-tutorials\/presentation\/how-to-animate-photos\/stereo-cards\/\" title=\"Stereo Cards\">Stereo Cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/about-the-book\/buy-the-book\/\" title=\"Buy the Book\">Reframing Photography<\/a><\/em>\u00a0book provides step-by-step instructions for making thaumatropes and flip books. 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