00:07how animation works is it's a trick when you go to a movie you're basically seeing 24 still images
00:13every second it's like a flip book as I flip through here you can see that each drawing is
00:18a little different than the last one and then as I flip through at speed the illusion of movement
00:24is created Pixar really wanted to show the public how animation works and one of the ideas to do
00:32this was to build something called a zoetrope zoetropes go back to the 19th century if you
00:37imagine a barrel with little slots and images each a little different from the last it's like a shutter
00:41and it shows you a little glimpse of that drawing across the way and they appear to move Studio
00:46Ghibli has this amazing three-dimensional zoetrope John Lasseter had seen the zoetrope there and I
00:52think he said I've never seen an object that so well describes the basic premise of animation when
00:58it was suggested that we do one for ourselves it was a no-brainer instead of drawings we're using
01:04sculptures so what you're seeing are 18 different sculptures each slightly different than the last
01:10one and instead of flipping through them we're using a strobe light to make those images stick
01:15in your eye and these spinning images freeze in space and each sculpture replaces the last one and
01:21appears to move it's stunning because it looks like it's come to life right in front of you I
01:27think that the zoetrope is the clearest explanation of animation because on the disc you get to see
01:33every frame of animation before your current frame where you're looking and every frame of animation
01:38after it period the opportunity to see the tricks the animator used to make things move it's a very
01:44simple mechanism is very simple idea but somehow seeing that come to life right in front of you is
01:49really fantastic
