A flip book is a small book filled with a series of pictures
(usually hand drawn) that change gradually as you thumb through the book. This
is one of the earliest forms of animation and they rely on persistence of
vision to create the illusion of movement on the page.
I created a flip book during my media lesson to further understand
the term persistence of vision and the minimum frames per second needed to
create a smooth animation. Mine lasted roughly 3 seconds long at roughly 10
frames per second that made it, what I thought to be, the minimum frames per
second to make it smooth.
My flip book centres around a person finding an ice cream, being
shocked, picking up the ice cream, eating it, enjoying it and coming to the
realisation of it being strawberry. This animation would have young children as
a target audience as it has a simple structure and simple sentences around the
image. Children would find this appealing as it contains ice cream and young
children eat ice cream almost religiously, also the paper is yellow which
connotes happiness and would excite young children to the point where they
would want to watch it.
Overall I have learned that this type of animation is probably the
easiest to do but it is also one of the most time consuming. Just 1 second will
take 25 pictures, if you want your animation to be super smooth. Also drawing
very complicated images could potentially ruin your piece if you couldn’t
re-create them exactly or if they take too long to draw and you only make 5
frames a second.
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