Flipbooks
Flipbooks are essentially those little books with a lot of pictures in them. You fan the pages, and Voila! the pictures move.
Flipbooks were the medien between pictures and animation. Hand drawn animations are still tested by binding into a flipbook. Disney actually makes all of their new animators work by hand for a while making these before they get to use a computer.
How do they Work?
Basically, those ltttle stick figures you draw on the corners of your notebooks are simple flipbooks. Most professional flipbooks are printed cheaply for kids so don't really survive the test of time. So while our history is a bit fuzzy we understand how we went from pictures to animated movies. Flipbooks. The original Animation.
History Of Patents on Flipbooks
John Barnes Linnet 1868 England
Henry Van Hoevenbergh 1882 America
Arthur Andrew Melville 1886 England
Charles Auguste Watilliaux
and Siméon Claparéde 1896
John O'Neill and Robert McNally 1897 England
Rudolf Schulze 1911 Germamy
The human retina hold onto an image for a second after seeing it.
By running the images by faster than the eye can keep up, it
appears to be a fluid motion, rather than as a bunch of stills.
Flipbooks utilize this to trick the eye, and later film did the same
Regognize this? It was made first as a flip book than scanned onto film