Animation Techniques: Flip Book

The next animation technique that I wanted to look at was flip book animation. Flip book animations have been around for a number of years now, and although they are no longer used to produce any cinema worthy animation they are still used in some smaller cases.

Flip books have been recorded well back into the 19th century as a basic and primitive form of animation, much like the zoetrope in the way in which it uses numbers of pictures that are shown in order very quickly to give the appearance of movement. The earliest recorded flip book was in 1868, patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name of a kineograph; which means moving picture. Below is a video, taken from YouTube, showing Keith Haring's work; in which I am very interested in. He is a well known artist and also animator, and has created some beautiful little animations as seen below.