Fox's Dancing Den

A phenakistoscope animation of a dancing fox, exhibited live on a hand-built custom turntable.

Spinning at 78 revolutions per minute via a simple motor and gear system, this animation is invisible to the naked eye, but it is viewable through a phone camera.

SKILLS: 2D Model Rigging, Applied Mathematics, Illustration, Laser Cutting, Painting, Retro Animation, Woodworking

SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Live2D, Paint Tool SAI

YEAR: 2023

Process Work

A GIF of the digital animated dancing fox phenakistoscope pictured in the video. Process photos on how the spinning turntable and gear system was built from laser-cut wood. There are also shots of the painting process. A close-up of the exhibition signs for the phenakistoscope, which instruct the viewer on how to view the animation and gear system.