Flip books

A flip books is a series of pictures with gradually movements from page to page so that when flicked in sequence will show a moving image... Basic animation. This was our first task. To create a flip book animation on post it notes.

Here are some of my ideas for my flip book. At first I thought about using a simple ball falling down some stairs or gradually building a brick wall ... but i wanted to be a little more creative. i started to draw cups of drink and then thought i could have a little boy sneakily having some. Then I thought wouldn't it be better for him to be stealing a biscuit... which is where the ANGRY COOKIE came from. 

My animation developed as it went on. This was because i used straight ahead animation. First of all the little boy was going to get his biscuit. but whilst drawing i thought it would be a little better if the cookie came to life too.. when i had finished i went back over it and added the door in the back ground so that the book could run away at the end as if scared of the cookie.

As well as being asked to create individual flip books, we were also asked to work in groups to make another. 

Our group wanted to keeps ours simple but still have fun with it. 

Together we decided on a stickman character. This way he was more likely to look consistent despite 5 people drawing him. 

We were also asked to make the animation a loop. So the second thing we decided to do as a group was plan what our stick man was going to do. We all wanted to make our sections different to each other so we decided a journey was a good idea. First he would walk, then dive, then climb, then walk again (see design concepts ... red ink)

Then to make each individual part fit together we each drew the start of each action twice and gave one to the person who was going to draw the action that came before ours ... that way we each had a start and an end point and could do whatever in between as long as they ended up at the correct points.

When i first started to draw the little man climbing the ladder, i decided that it would be fun to blow the ladder up and create an obstacle for the little guy.  At first the water level was a lot higher but when i was drawing this i thought ... The man can swim ... why would he need to be climbing the ladder now ... can't he just swim to the surface and then use the ladder ... which meant ... the hole in the ladder wouldn't effect him at all ... so me and Harshini adapted our joining point so that the water level was lower at the start to make it a little more realistic.

We named our animation THE OPTIMIST because the little guy is always smiling.