How To Create a Flip Book
- February 5, 2008
- 70,261 Views
Music
Edison Music Corp
Writer
Grayson Hill
Voice Over Artist
Marci Fine
Doodles are fun, but turn them into a flipbook and they spring to life on the page—your flower blooms, your rocketship blasts off, or, if your doodles are a little on the primitive side, sure: your stick figure walks.
You Will Need
- A ruler
- Some loose paper
- A pen or pencil
- Index cards
- And a rubber band
Step 1: Use ruler to draw frames
Use the ruler to help you lightly draw a series of rectangles on loose paper. These will act as guides, or frames, for your concept.
Start with about 48 frames—you can add or subtract later as needed.
Step 2: Sketch animation in frames
Conceptualize in your head the scene you’d like to animate. Then lightly sketch out your animation in the frames, drawing one frame for each stage of animation.
Draw the first and last frames before filling in the intermediary steps.
Step 3: Draw frames on index cards
When you’re done with the sketches, it’s time to make the actual flip book. Carefully draw each frame on the right-hand side of a different index card.
If your animation images are small, draw them near the top corner. It will help you align your drawings to a common point of reference.
Step 4: Occasionally test
Occasionally test how your animation looks by holding the left side of the stack firmly with your left hand and flipping through the right side with your right thumb.
If you think there’s a jump in the animation, insert a new card between the awkward frames and draw an intermediate step.
Step 5: Loop rubber band
When you’re satisfied with all your drawings, loop the rubber band tightly around the left side of the stack.
Step 6: Flip through book
Now set the scene in motion with a flick of your thumb. Try flipping it from back to front—yup, the scene goes backward!
The German word for a flip book is daumenkino, which means “thumb cinema.”
Something wrong? Report this How-To
Video is in Kiddie Crafts (36 videos)
How To Make a Simple Paper Kite
- 59,675 views
- Chez_Kimberly
How To Build a Fort in Your Room
- 49,893 views
- icto001
How To Make a Paper Glider
- 26,296 views
- Chez_Kimberly
Comments (10)
This was a great video.
over 3 years ago by sanjay
Yeah.
over 2 years ago by FunniBaby
i think so~ it is so good video~
over 2 years ago by aacdeod
What an interesting way to get people interested in reading! Book trailers are like movie trailers, but for books! You can find them all over the internet now, but here is a site that's featuring them on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/booktrailers
over 3 years ago by qqqq
Cool stuffs.
over 3 years ago by Samo
cool!
over 2 years ago by Juliana_Garces
Great video with easy to understand directions.
over 3 years ago by jerryctgc
IF YOU LIKED THIS WATCH AND VOTE FOR ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO BY THE SAME DIRECTOR!
http://www.howcast.com/contests/The-Howcast-Emerging-Filmmakers-Program-HowTo-Video-Challenge#entry_id=2
over 2 years ago by michaelrsanchez
j
11 months ago by Noah_Tyler_Saxon
WE ACCEPT PYAPAL PAYMENT
We will give you a discount
YOU MUST NOT MISS IT!!!
=== http://www.goodshopping100.com ==
thank you!!!
Believe you will love it.
We have good reputation, fashion products,
come here quickly== http://www.goodshopping100.com ==
Opportunity knocks but once
5 months ago by xiangbkd
its hard to make so many sketches!!
5 months ago by Kashish_Khan
Sign in or create an account to post a comment. Or, sign in using your Facebook to comment
and share your activity with your friends