We Got Time by David Wilson-My Opinion

When watching We Got Time by David Wilson you can see that he has an immense range of skills as a director and an artist, seeing as he created and drew all the turntables himself over the course of the months they were planning it. As an example of turntable animation its probably one of the best and one of my favourites because of its creativeness and the way it challenges what is normally used on turntables.

Praxinoscopes are one of the pieces of equipment that David Wilson uses in the video. A Praxinoscope is simply the mirror atop the disc thats spinning that allows the image to be flipped an seen at an angle instead of always from above. It was adapted from the Zoetrope by animator Charles-Émile Reynaud.

From watching the "making of" David mentions that he discovered that you could make levels of Praxinoscopes and then combine separate discs with common images that give an extended version. like the one in the picture above, the leaf starts on the lowest one then raises up flowing into the two next mirrors almost seamlessly. This was developed from an earlier version that saw a deer running between different discs while shrinking and getting larger.

I think the multi-level one was developed from here and its a very good starting point as it shows off the skills of David very well. Watching the different discs spin shows how detailed they are. The discs themselves are spun on a recreation of the turntables used by DJ's at parties or discos. Hence why all the paper discs are designed like the vinyl ones that are normal used.  All thats required for the images to move  is that they are redrawn in the next segment in a different place or position. so that when the disc is spun at speed it will move and rotate.