The Animation Stand - Text 1
The stage in which drawings are photographed with a view to their future animation rests on a simple and essential notion: the content of each photogram should squeeze tightly between the previous and following photographs so that the movement is fluid and does not “jump” from one image to the next. This could create trembling in the image or quite simply jeopardise the phi phenomenon, which makes the illusion of movement possible. Under this reasoning, one can understand that an apparatus which mitigated these possible problems in the photography was necessary. The animation stand was the technical form this solution took. The idea was to design an all-encompassing device which would integrate the table on which the drawings were positioned (and on which were attached the tenons of the peg bar); the sources of lighting, placed either below or beside the drawing; and the camera, attached to a stand and thus able to be raised or lowered.
