Flipbook

                                 Flip book

What is a Flip book and how does it work?

A Flip book or "Flick Book" is a book with a series of pictures that change slightly through each page, so when then pages are turned rapidly it gives the appearance of animation this is another form of animation which uses "persistence of vision". All you need too create this "Device" is a simple fresh book and a pen/pencil or any other writing tool.

Here we have a video showing a flip book in motion but without drawings and holes punched into the flip book instead giving it the effect of an optical illusion.

The first flip book appeared in 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett (left) a lithograph printer who named the device kineograph, however  Pierre Hubert Desvignes has been generally credited with inventing the flip book.




Advantages: Cheap, easy too use. can provide fun and may be a great way too get kids into animation.

Disadvantages: May prove boring after a while, may use a lot of paper in the process of creating.

Zoetrope

Zoetrope

What is a Zoetrope?

The Zoetrope is one of many pre-film animation tools that can produce an illusion using images and drawings showing "progressive phases" of that particular motion. This is what is known as "persistence of vision" the same effect we get from the thaumatrope. The Zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically on the sides and on the inside you  would be able too find a sequence of pictures. As the cylinder spins the user looks through and can see the animation take place.

Who invented this device?

The inventor of the Zoetrope was a man named William George Horner a British Mathematician; Schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper. The basic drum-like form of the Zoetrope was created roughly between 1833-1834 and the inventor WGH was aware of the recently invented and closely related Phenakistoscope.

Advantages: Cheap and easy too craft, interesting, provided insight in to future forms of animation.

Disadvantages: May not be as entertaining as present day animation.