Flipbook

The concept of a flipbook or flick book is the next evolution of animation. Whilst still being a fairly simple concept in itself, this is where we start to see animation take shape more as we know it today.

The first flipbook was patented by John Barnes Linnett in 1868 under the name kineograph (moving picture).

Carrying on from the Thaumatropes concept, the flipbook essentially just added more pages rather than just having two sides. A series of slightly changing images would be drawn in order on a page each then the pages would be flicked with the thumb to show the desired animation.

As you can guess this relies heavily on persistence of vision again although this time we can see something moving as opposed to just two frames interchanging.

Some advantages:

Still a popular concept

Easy to Understand

Can be anything you want

Some disadvantages:

Not as widely used

Takes a lot of skill and artistic ability to do it well