Right so here we go! I created a flip book at the book binding workshop at uni to see a different way to animate photos. It was quite an interesting effect because normally we are used to seeing animation on the computer, but this is one of the earliest forms of animation and we have complete control over it, whether we want it to go backwards, upside down, how fast, how slow etc.
I tried to use a similar process but with actually handling the photos myself and taking photos of the photos so it looked like it was in a still life but it was moving. I like the idea that something comes to life on a piece of paper when everything around it is just still. I used to dream that if you drew something on a piece of paper when I was young, that it would come to life, and in some ways I'm using the same idea. It's as if the same ideas I had as a kid have the same magical mystery to them.
I think the effect of the photo animation is much more effective than the video idea I tried out, using the same idea. I could catch everything in stills, whereas when I tried to speed up the video, it missed out quite a bit and still went at quite a slow speed. I've added both of the videos up showing the different experiments. As I said in a previous post, I always get nervous showing anyone anything unfinished or an experiment gone wrong, but this is all part of the process. This next video I only sped it up by 6x because it cut off some at the end, and it was particularly slow at the beginning because I was putting down the pieces of photos myself, and as I was getting used to it, I became a lot faster. I haven't added any music to this one as just to show it was a bit of an experimentation that didn't flow quite the way I wanted it to:
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