3 Traditional Moving Image Techniques (Flip Book Animation)

Flip Book Animation

A flip book animation is a collection pictures combined together intended to be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and create an animated sequence from a small book without using a machine.

This Animation was very popular in the late 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century but still produced today.

Flip book (from the verb to flip over or to flip through).

Sometimes called Kineograph, British people tend to call it flick book.

Some authors compared the flip book to a small notebook.

Originally stapled, mostly bound today - that you hold in one hand, while you flip over the pages with the thumb from the other hand, either from front to back or back to front.