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.
Your eyes briefly hold each image (persistence of vision), so fast stills blend into smooth motion.
Persistence of vision fuses rapid stills into motion.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Make a flipbook with a stick figure changing slightly per page — flip it fast to "animate" it.