Thaumatrope Animation & How it works

Thaumatrope:

Through the thaumatrope in which I created, i made it using very basic animation. The images on the thaumatrope was a fish and a fish bowl, and misleading the audience to believe that the fish was in the bowl. If you are twisting the elastic band on each side too slowly or too fast then you will not be able to see the animation clearly, but as the animation is required to be twisted moderately fast this helps to then be able to see the animation in a more clear perspective. What is good about thaumatrope animations is that it can be drawn as whatever you please from a stickman to a fish and fish bowl, you can use your imagination in this situation and that is what is so good about it. The thaumatrope itself is an animation as it is an illusion of movement which tends to use photography which shows that the fish is inside the fish bowl but really it's not. The thaumatrope is quite fun, but won't keep you entertained for long as it tends to get boring after a while, but in terms of how long it takes to make, it's definitely worth the experience. When comparing to an animation film, it doesn't tend to have as many different shots that would incur within an animated film. From looking at my previous post analysing what animation is, I would definitely say that my thaumatrope is definitely on the side of being an animation, although I would say it's not the best.