Heads up - Very Interesting Book

[Bushwhacker]

I've got a really old book at home by Eadweard Muybridge - a photographer in Victorian times - called Animals in motion.

It has some great photographic sequences of different animals and the way they move.
Walking, cantering, trotting, galloping, leaping, etc.

Although very old, it gives a great insight into how one animal can produce different sets of tracks. This guy was a pioneer in motion photography. He was also resolved the famous debate back then of whether all four of a horses hooves are off the floor during a gallop.

Anyway, just thought I'd let you know in case you didn't already.

 

[mjk123]

>>This guy was a pioneer in motion photography. He was also resolved the famous debate back then of whether all four of a horses hooves are off the floor during a gallop.

Indeed he was. He started with moving pictures of a horse, then other animals, then he recognised the true potential of the new media and moved into soft porn. It's true.
And he got away with murder; i.e.shooting a man at point blank range then claiming he ought to be let off because he wasn't feeling very well that day. Honestly, the stuff you could get away with 100 years ago.

 

[mick miller]

This was essential reading when I did my animation degree! Lots of olde worlde ladies in the altogether, oooh it made my eyes water.