My creativity is definitely biased toward drawing and animation. This week I’d like to share a video about doing a very simple and rewarding animation project – making a flip book.
There are lots of ways to do this, and there are many different types of flip books you might want to try. You can use post-it notes, small drawing pads, pieces of paper cut and stapled together, or the edges of your math book. (Of course, you shouldn’t write in your math book.)
I find it best to work from back to front, so I can see through the page to the previous (ie, next) drawing. Others like to start at the front and work straight through. It’s all good, and you should do what you feel like doing.
This first lesson shows how to do a flip-drawing. It’s a single pair of drawings to get you used to the types of changes you can do from image to image.
See? Not so hard.
The second video shows a few very fancy and beautiful Japanese flip books. These were likely done on a computer then printed out, but there’s nothing preventing us from trying to draw or paint something similar ourselves.
If you need help making a small bound booklet of paper to flip, there is this silent video about making one:
One final note. Your flip book can be filmed to make a movie. At the Animation Lab in DC, we used to make flip books, then shoot each frame in sequence. It can then be played back without wear or tear on the original artwork.
You could, if you so chose, do an entire feature length film this way.
love them!
One of my Dad’s coworkers showed me how to make a simple one when I was 8 or 9. I took it to school, and everybody started making them. Yes, in our textbooks too, especially the geography book, because it had space in the right corners. 🙂