October 6, 2015 at 4:10 pm

Alexandre Dubosc’s Chocolate Cake Zoetrope is Awesome

by twistedsifter

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Melting POP is the latest animation film from the wonderfully, wild mind of Alexandre Dubosc. In ‘Melting POP’ Dubosc bakes a chocolate cake zoetrope, a ‘pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion’. [source]

More specifically, Dubosc ‘bakes’ a 3D zoetrope—mounted on a spinning base—and illuminated by a strobe light, to create the illusion of motion. You can read more about how zoetropes work here.

Fo more films and animations check out alexandre-dubosc.com.

[via Colossal]

 

 

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