Idea 6 - Final Thaumatrope (Flashing Images)

(WARNING this post has flashing images)

I'm making my own digital thaumatrope, I'm going to have 4 pictures to make 4 digital thaumatropes. 4 print outs as well as 4 gifs to show on screen how the illusion works. 

I started with a picture of Clint Eastwood and removed the background, then I sharpened the image, turned it into black and white and applied a dot effect. 

Clint Eastwood Effects

I made and chose 3 images that I wanted to combine with my final edited Clint Eastwood newspaper style floating head. Im going to pair the final 4 images with each other to see the different combinations.

Final Design 1

I wanted to see if I could have the shadow and detail on one side and colour on the other side, so I added an effect to the sharpened image. The contrast isn't as drastic as I would have liked, so I'm going to try to leave more white space to infuse the difference in pictures.

Final Design 2

I wanted to add brighter colours, more texture and create more of a contrast with each side of the thaumatrope, so I got a collection of brush strokes and overlapped them to mach the positioning on thaumatrope 1. I wanted it to look like poorly applied make-up when it mixes with the other picture, but I ended up leaving it abstract after looking at work from Damien Hirst and Andrew Salgado. Personally this design is my favourite out of the 3.

Final Design 3

This is an image of a skull I found on google, I wanted to see how it would look with the thaumatrope 1 design.

Final Design 4

To make a digital version of a thaumatrope I've made the 4 images into gifs that flash at a fast rate between 2 images, thus merging them.

Thaumatrope 1&2

Final Thaumatrope 1

Thaumatrope 1&3

Final Thaumatrope 2

Thaumatrope 1&4

Final Thaumatrope 3

Thaumatrope 3&4

Final Thaumatrope 4