Not exact matches
The fouetté turn, a full understanding
of which struck Laws
like a whip late one night, creates a different
illusion: perpetual
motion.
More impressive still, they may even have invented animation, using discs
of bone to create the
illusion of motion, much
like a modern flip book.
That's the big problem: everything in the film is so solid, so real - seeming (partly as a result
of Gondry's brilliant way with analog as well as digital
illusion, and techniques
like stop -
motion), whereas the novel is by nature light, a construct
of weightless, casually handled language from which images emerge as if by magic.
The structure
of Craycroft's installation borrows from early stop -
motion animation techniques
like the 20th century setback camera, which gave the
illusion of forms moving through real space by filming animation cells on a horizontal glass plane placed in front
of a miniature forced perspective set.