Video: How Flip Book Animation Works

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Learn how animation works in a flip book due to the persistence of vision from our interactive media expert in this free visual arts video lesson.

- How Flip Book Animation Works
- Materials Needed to Create a Flip Book

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I'm going to be introducing some animation principles to you today and we're going to demonstrate it with the construction of a flipbook. Now, animation is lots of fun and everyone loves animation and think of it as Bugs Bunny or Looney Tunes, but it's much more than that. It's basically, a lot of people think of it as the same thing as a movie, except instead of using a camera, you're drawing everything. Now, the principle of motion picture photography and animation, they are essentially the same. They are a collection of still images just slightly different than each other that are shown back in rapid succession and give the illusion of movement. Now this illusion of movement is contributed to an idea. It's called the persistence of vision. Now, you can see this principle at work in a century's old toy called a zolotrope. Now a zolotrope is just a simple card with a picture on each side and when the pictures are alternated by spinning it, you can see that the images appear to become combined. In this example, we have a bird on one side, and a cage on the other. We spin the disk and through the retention of one image to the next by the brain, then it looks like they are one solid image. This is the same principle when you apply it to a whole screen of images.

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How Flip Book Animation Works

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