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Mission 5 of 16

Persistence of Vision & Motion

📋 What it is

Your eyes hold each image briefly, so fast still pictures blur into smooth motion — the basis of animation.

🗣️ Coach says

Your eye keeps each image for a fraction of a second after it’s gone — "persistence of vision". Show still pictures fast enough and your brain blends them into smooth MOTION. That’s how every cartoon, movie and flipbook works: there’s no real movement, just many stills shown quickly.

🧠 Memory hook

Eyes hold each image briefly → fast stills blur into MOTION. The trick behind every movie and cartoon.

😂 Giggle

Why was the mirror so confident?
Because it could always reflect on its accomplishments!

😲 Whoa!

A movie is really just about 24 still photos flashed every second — there’s no actual movement on the screen, only your brain smoothing the stills into motion.

✅ Quick check: How do a series of still pictures create the illusion of movement in a cartoon?

Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.

🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)

Make a flipbook with a stick figure changing slightly per page — flip it fast to "animate" it.

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🤸 Brain break: Flip-it: mime flipping pages fast and watch the "motion" appear.