List of Figures

Chapter 1: Basic Principles

Figure 1.1: The spacing of the animated images is what gives the animated action its specific timing and dynamic quality. The greater the distance between objects, the faster the action will be. Notice how the feathers in the illustration are grouped closely together. This will give a slower, more floaty type of action, while the drawings of the one-ton weight are more widely spaced, which will give a much faster action. Also notice that the weight drawings appear directly over one another to give a linear movement; the weight would fall straight down. The drawings of the feathers, on the other hand, move in a series of arcs to create the desired action; the feather would move too and fro as it fell to earth, at some points moving slightly quicker than at other times.
Figure 1.2: There are a few basic points to bear in mind when you begin to make a flip book. Basic Point Number 1 don t use a Bible or any other holy texts. Basic Point Number 2 you should make your drawings in a landscape not portrait format, so if at some point you decide to record them on video or scan them into a computer you can see them on a monitor in the same approximate format as film and television.
Figure 1.3: Basic Point Number 3 you should begin your drawings on the last page of your flip book pad with it turned onto the backing...

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