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April 26, 2005
1981 Flipbook
When I was growing up, I first wanted to be a rock star, then an animator, then a special effects wizard and then a film director. During that whole phase of my life, I wrote short film scripts, illustrated otherworldly characters and even created a couple of flipbooks. Here is the first one, based on the ending of a short film I was never to create. The short film was to be titled Triumph, after the name of the smaller spaceship in the flipbook animation.
To create this web-ready version, I scanned in each 3x5 card on which the flipbook was created, brought each image into Adobe After Effects, used AE’s motion stabilization feature to re-register each frame so the movie didn’t jump all over the place, and then render the final out to a Quicktime movie.
Here is a picture of the flipbook in mid-flip:
Here is the final movie version that plays at ten frames per second:
1981 Flipbook (1.3MB)
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The image and flipbook movie are Copyright 2005 Nathan Dickson. All rights reserved worldwide.
Posted by Nathan Dickson at April 26, 2005 05:57 PM
Comments
That is the coolest thing in for ever.
Posted by: Zach at May 12, 2005 09:31 PM