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How to Animate a Flip Book

Learn how to animate a flip book, with tips on pose-to-pose and straight ahead animation, from our interactive media expert in this free visual arts video.

- How to Add Frames to a Flip Book
- How to Clean Up Frames in a Flip book

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When making a flip book, it's a good idea to have a plan for what you're doing. It's a simple process so let's start simply. Our idea for a flip book can be to transform one shape into another. Now there's two different ways of doing this. This translates to one of the primary animation principles of pose to pose animation vs. straight ahead animation. Straight ahead animation is very free, you simply draw on one card and continue one after the other with really no plan, it's kind of like improvising. But for this example, we're going to introduce the pose to pose method of animation. So, what you first want to do is draw one shape on one card and a second shape on the other. Don't forget to label your frames with numbers. One is the beginning and 90 is the end of your animation flip book.

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How to Animate a Flip Book

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