Flip Book Animation Ideas

A flip book is something that almost everyone can do. Flip books are great for animators that are just starting out and they become more complex with people that have more experience. With some simple supplies and a few instructions you can create this piece of basic animation.

Assembling snowman: Draw a series of pages where a circle falls from the sky. Make the circle get larger a little at a time until it lands on the bottom of the page. Draw a circle that is a little smaller that also falls from the sky. Draw the smaller circle to fall and land on the larger circle. Draw other pieces of the snow man blowing in, rolling, or coming in to the picture some other way from the edges of the page toward the two circles. Continue to draw the pieces until you have a whole snowman assembled.

Diver: Draw a stick person that is on top of a diving board overlooking a body of water. Draw the diver slowly bouncing up and down on the diving board gradually. Have the diver jump off of the diving board and make whatever kind of dive you would like it to make. If you are a beginner, it might be best if you use a simple dive. If you are an experienced animator, you can have your diver do whatever twirls and flips you would like before they hit the water.

Dancer: Draw a stick person performing dance moves. They can be whatever kind of dance moves that you would like. Make sure that you include movement of the arms and legs between each page for a nicer final look to the dance moves. You could add moving musical notes, of you like, and make them grow to show that the character is listening to music.

Growing flower: Draw some grass or dirt. This is going to become the base of your pages. Draw a sprout coming out of the ground, growing slowly. Draw it growing over several pages and have it develop a small bud. Over the next few pages, have the bud grow and bloom.