Explore - Flippin' Eck Flip Books

These videos show the flip books that i have made over the past week each one has been an improvement upon the last i feel.

the above flip book is my first attempt and we were asked to make a bouncing ball and in future flip books improve upon it and develop it into something interesting. For the most part it turned out quite well but it was difficult to do with a limited number of pages (20) so making the ball gradually bouncing to a stop was a bit impossible.

So in my second attempt i made the ball look like it was being launched and ricocheting off the sides of the page at high speeds, this looked alright but again the page limitations and i don't think i had gotten the hang of squash and stretch as well as the timing and spacing of the balls travelling.

After the previous ones squash and stretch attempt i had gotten frustrated and decided to make a solid steel ball, with it while i had to get the timing and spacing right for the fall i didn't need to worry about squash and stretch. I enjoyed drawing this one as i could add a hint of humour to it when it hit the ground, breaking the ground.

Continuing with the solid ball theme i chose to make a cannon to fire my solid ball shattering it  upon impact, this one worked as a quick flip book to show the speed and impact of the ball shattering but i would of liked more frames to have given the cannon some anticipation and build up before firing as well as the smoke to have vanished and the ball fragments to have settled.

Im not even sure what happened with this one... I started by wanting to make a bird fly around but it quickly became a crazy bird call where the birds beak and eyes took on an insane amount of exaggeration, this was just really to try something different to the bouncing/solid ball id been drawing so far.

I wanted more time to put into my flip book and create smoother animations so i used posted notes. With the extra pages i was able to create a ball bouncing across the page with a much smoother bounce and get the squash and stretch right.

This final flip book is another bouncing ball but with additional material, it was fun to add the material because it gave the bouncing ball a new element id not done in my previous flip books, a secondary action. I had to figure out how much the material would fall and rise once the ball had reached its lowest and highest point, giving me a chance to try a bit of overlapping action and follow through.