Eadweard Muybridge, (also originaly known as Edward James Muggeridge), was born on the April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames Surrey and then died on May the 8th 1904 same place at Kingston upon Thames. He was an English photographer who invented animation/ stop motion, a little bit of a chemist, and an artist though he was heavily into photography. He was one of the most strangest and significant figures of photography.
Muybridge tried to capture change. He was crazy with the wonders of photographic art that he and his pioneers took in America and London. Muybridge wanted to reinvent himself and also wanted to be a master of his own universe, stopping time and freezing time by putting pieces back to all together. He was always inventing something new a fresh new toy that do a fresh new trick. He wanted adventure, thought that Kingston was a boring place, he wanted to see what was happening around the world. So therefore he left school and began embarking on his new Journey. He was going to America.
During on the first stage of his life, he began experimenting with still images in photography. There he took lots of pictures but with some overlayed clouds on top of the photograph. He took photos of valleys and coastal areas. He got commissioned from famous people such as Governor Leland Standford to photograph the moving gait of his horserace, Occident.
When his near death experience occurred he visualised that where "all the time had stopped". Each of the the vision that he saw of the people was blurry and was seeing one or more of them in the same sort of position. Then with the sprung of an idea came to his mind that he call it as animation. He was very obsessed with speed and power and he also wanted to know how the magic of machinery worked. After when he recovered from his injury he then began to experiment with horses each of them to try to animate by frame by frame using camera shutters. The way how it worked was he placed each of the white long lines attached to the camera shutter and the pole. He gave it enough space cause he didn't wanted to mess it up. When he finished placing all the bits he need, he then started the horse movement experiment. Each white line was taken down was each frame from the camera was taken. He didn't have a very good fast shutter camera back at that time so he needed something more that would suit for his work. Then when the result of the stop motion was finally put in pieces, he then showed it to some of his people that he know and they were very impressed by his work. After that he published his works to world wide for everyone to see. His artworks was then inspired by many others such as the movie matrix where this one scene had to take a series amount of photographs during a still image, video games and many other animated movies.
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