Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge who, in 1872, began producing a series of studies on human and animal life, photographed infront of a plain. calibrated backdrop. the photographs, shot every few seconds, revealed what the human eye can not register: the true complexity involved in the mechanics of physical locomotion.

A photographic sequence by Eadweard Muybridge, whose 19th century experiments have been of priceless help to later generations of animation.

In 1880 Muybridge conducted one of his most sophisticated experiments, when he photographed a running horse, using 24 still cameras set up alongside a race track and triggered by a series of trip wires. Muybridge photographs of horses, dogs and the naked human form would become an indispensable aid to later generations of animation.