Part of the Teaching Artists Present collection.
Have you ever seen a magic trick and wondered how it was done? Visual trickery, or an optical illusion, is like magic in the visual arts where you can trick the eye into seeing motion, making objects disappear, or causing sudden transformations. In this video, learn with animator Tad Sare and discover how you can create an optical illusion where a drawing or photo magically transforms into another!
Tad Sare (he/him) is an experimental animator, which means that he tells stories through moving images and sound. Tad runs the animation program at Delaware College of Art & Design (DCAD) where he teaches courses on traditional and digital artmaking. For many years, he has spent summers instructing school-age students at art camps and collaborated on wonderful stop motion animation projects, murals, and sculptures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Cab Calloway School of Performing Arts. When he is not creating, Tad enjoys learning new skills, building new worlds with his daughter, playing soccer, cooking, eating, reading, and traveling.
