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| Edward Muybridge |
Sooner or later all students of animation come across the work of Edward Muybridge. Muybridge was a pioneering English photographer who spent much of his life in California, photographing studies of human and animal locomotion.
Muybridge's work, now in the public domain (i.e. the copyright has expired) is still of great importance to animators, despite having been done more than 100 years ago.
Muybridge's work, now in the public domain (i.e. the copyright has expired) is still of great importance to animators, despite having been done more than 100 years ago.
For almost any kind of animal locomotion, Muybridge is still very useful for life-action analysis, even in the era of YouTube.
Muybridge was the first person to figure out the precise details of horse locomotion, proving that in a full gallop there was a period in the horse's stride where all four feet left the ground - something that was impossible to detect with the human eye.
