Process&Production- A Brief History of Animation- Flip Books

A Brief History of Animation- Flip Books

Flipbooks were used by Disney to watch their animation movements from their characters after they had finished the sequence they were doing. These books were created to show what their animation paper flip books look like when properly created. As they did not have time to create these books after every sequence they just made do with flipping their animation paper stacks. 

After doing each drawing, the animators would get used to flipping back and forth to make sure each drawing matched up perfectly, which because of experience they did. The smooth movements and actions made by these characters really shows the animators skills.

This type of drawing skills are used less and less in the industry now as it can be done quicker and more precisely on a computer, this is only used not when the production whats a deliberately hand drawn look to it or to carry on with the old fashioned look of the animations.