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Design Exercise: Flip Book Animation

Last week I talked about early animation techniques. So here is your chance to try one of these forms of animation while also exploring some of the design concepts covered in Design: A Beginner’s Handbook. A flip book may seem … Continue reading

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From Still to Moving Image

Kineographs, phenakistoscopes, mutoscopes, zoetropes, zoopraxiscopes, thaumatropes, even flip books – quite a mouthful. What all these devices have in common is that they take a series of still images and create the illusion of motion. They are all precursors to … Continue reading

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