What is flip book animation?
Flip book animation utilizes human vision and optical illusion to tell stories in a simple way. Understanding this art form, you will begin to understand how animation works.Before the Flip BookIn 1828, Paul Roget developed the thaumatrope, a paper disc with an image on each side and a string attached to the top and bottom.Roget’s Bird in a CageA picture of a bird was one side and a cage drawn on the other. When Roget rapidly flipped the disc with the string, the bird appeared to be in the cage.Development of Roget’s ExperimentsIn 1882, Henry van Hovenbergh patented the “flip book,” drawings on separate pieces of paper and simply bound into a book using techniques Roget and other pioneers of early animation discovered.DescriptionFlip books are miniature books that tell stories through two-dimensional images, one picture per page. When the pages are flipped from front to back, it appears as if the pictures move sequentially.How It WorksAs Roget’s thaumatrope proved in the 19th century,
