Hartbeat - Moving images (2 of 3)

Featuring Tony Hart and Margot Wilson.

Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=N4lPOhAs8YU
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=V2wTdBQzAt8
Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgtvcvL0N9s

Tony makes an animated cartoon face, using sliding strips of card to move the eyes and mouth.

Margot demonstrates an old "What The Butler Saw" mutoscope, lent to Hartbeat by the Penny Pier Arcade at Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset. She then visits Alison Sherlock, an animator in the BBC graphics department, who explains how a computer-controlled rostrum camera is used to create the animations for Hartbeat.

Tony demonstrates the principles of anthropomorphism, by drawing a cartoon cat playing cricket. He starts by drawing a simple human figure batting, and then uses this outline to draw a cat batting.

Finally, Margot, inspired by a book called "Make moving patterns" by Tim Armstrong, makes her own optical illusions. She draws black parallel lines on a sheet of cellophane, and then uses this to draw birds, an ant and a face, which appear to move when the cellophane is moved over the top.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartbeat

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[naeema]

Wow! I loved watching this!

thanks for sharing.

[ttpkblt1]

got to love Morph!!