Making A Flip book

Subj : 2D Animation
Task : Structure 

flip book is one of the way to do an animation. For this time I need to do the basic principle of animation into a flip book and it will make me more understanding about the principle of animation.

Making a flip book is not easy and also not to hard, what we need to produce a flip book is the quality paper. If we just use a thin paper it will make the flip book difficult to flip and we cannot see the movement smoothly. There is good and bad using a thin paper, the good thing is we can trace the image easily and easy to make a movement with a nice arcs but the bad thing is when we flip it there is some page will not flip and it will be skip some of the movement.

Other than that when make a flip book make sure use a suitable size of the book because when you use a big size but have less pages it will be difficult to flip and at the end we cannot see what it's about.

 Other than that for me it is difficult to maintain the size of the image if we not use the light box. I cannot estimate the space between one action to another action and one pages to another pager therefor using the light box help me a lot to solve my problem.

There is some of the principle of animation that for me it easy to understand and easy to draw it in the flip book such as squash and stretch, arcs, and follow through and overlapping but there is a some for me it difficult such as the secondary action. I have difficulties to understanding what is actually mean by secondary action and lastly I use you tube and watch the example of the movie that is show about secondary action and FINALLY I understand what is secondary action. Secondary action is a movement that happen after the primary action such as an ant fall into the jelly the primary action was an ant will be bouncing on the top of the jelly and the secondary action was the jelly will be shaking.

When making a flip book we must draw the drawing movement a little by little so we can see the nice movement. From here also I understand that when we want to make the animation move faster we can draw the image with large space between one page to another page.

For the finishing of the flip book we must make sure that the end or the ages of the flip book are same so that it will be easy to flip and there is no page will be skip.