I like to use the Rhodia notebooks.
They are each 80 pages, which works with the timeline standards.
In addition, these contain quadrille "graph" lines in a very faint blue.
Occasionally people ask:
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Markers
PrismaColor Markers - a select number of colours.
Prismas are GREAT, but it's also recommended that you get a piece of paper in between your pages while you are coloring, or else they will often smudge onto the page behind the one you're coloring in.
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| You will notice on occasion that I include the catalogue #s of the markers I use. |
Pens
Micron Pens - 005, 01, 02, 03, 05, 08.
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| Why so many pens? Don't they all look the same? |
These are the pens that I use. You might find them to be quite useful, as well. They work great with the types of markers that I find also to be top-notch.
It's important to recognize that you can use the technique of different line thicknesses to draw attention to certain shapes. I use this technique all the time, with my flipbooks usually consisting of a Micron #01, a #05, and then usually a #02 or a #03 for additional details.
Facebook Channel
Whoever thought a friendship organization service would be so successful?
Many would say that flipbooks would not be successful, in a world full of iPads, computers, phones... But I believe that now is the time to remember books. We are very reliant on this web of information for our news about what's happening. It's only been available to us for less than 2 decades. But books have been around since the invention of paper by the Egyptians.
Earlier people wrote on animal skin, and it's no wonder we don't know what they wrote, because it didn't last for long. However, the cave paintings have still lasted, and prove to stand the test of time, describing that the first scribes were actually just old-school graffiti artists. Nobody owned caves, at that time, but now it seems that everything's owned. We couldn't have a La Croix nowadays because there's just not enough space. All the roads need to be paved, and you might think that art is just frivolous stuff to be forgotten and cast aside while we take in stride this 21st century wild ride.
Flipbooks cannot be denied! We subjugate our lives to the CGI while the actual events that define our existence get swept under the rug of irrelevance. Find a way to encapsulate your thoughts into neat little orange notebooks that you bought, and then you can show them to your friends. Just don't get caught writing one that contains violence or nobody will want to see your thoughts! They'll think you want to see that sort of thing. Keep it clean, and be a mean lean flipbook machine. Eat more stringbeans than jellybeans, and less jelly donuts than a bunch of old robots.
The new robots run on coffee... The old robots ran on JellyBeans. It's a fact.
You Can Learn
This does not stir from a disinterest in the material within the textbook you intend on writing your flipbook animation. You could draw something which enhances your course material. Everyone has to get started somewhere, right? This brings us straight to step one.
Step One. Draw in your notebook. Or textbook. Whatever you find handy enough to create your hand-drawn flipbook. Don't be too overly ambitious. Give your self a project that you know you can finish, and have no expectations about the result. Here's a question to ask yourself afterwards when you're done: does it accomplish what you set to accomplish?
Of course it does! You're on Flipbook Island!
Examine the image that you see at the top of the page. It's called "Shape," although it's really about layering. Note how on the top image, all you see is just two straight lines (one very thin below the thick one) and another, in the form of a hill. That's layer one, and layer one is the first layer you draw. Now, notice that on that hill, I have added three circles (the lines between the circles are just to show the distance), and a small shrub on the other side of the hill. That would be layer two.
In layer three, you can see that I've added a body to the cyclist. That's important, as you know, because the cyclist needs to have shape. These are all thinner lines, so the detail is greater in there. That's why the body of the cyclist is its own layer. You will find that each layer only should contain about three or four different elements, when getting started. Meaning, that you should draw three or four lines every page per run.
What's a 'run' ?
A "run" or a "page run," as it's called, is a full flip of the animation that you're drawing. If you are drawing a flipbook, a "writing run" is one in which a layer is added to the entire duration of the animation. There are also "partial writing runs" in which you add elements that only last a few pages.
Quiz
1. You are adding a turtle to the bicycle. The turtle is on every page of the notebook. What is the classification of this type of addition?
a. A full writing run
b. A partial writing run
c. Partial page run
d. Fun
The answer is (d. Fun), although if you want to get technical, you could have also responded with (a).
A full writing run is one where you compose an entire layer over every page. Does anybody realize we're still on step one???
The Truth About Step Two
You should think about step two before you start step one! Perhaps I should have listed step two as step one in the first place, but chronologically step two happens after you're done making your flipbook.
Step Two. Share it. And by that, I mean give it to somebody else. It's one thing to email your friend a link to a video. It's entirely another thing to hand a physical object to that person and say, "here, this is yours." Step two is the most crucial step in flipbooks, because without it, there would be no point to any of this.
With that, I say that you must consider the purpose of your flipbook before you write it. That's going to be discussed in the section that I call "Layout." Maybe you want to make a flipbook that goes with a song. Perhaps then, you should draw it while listening to that album. Or you'd like to make something significantly greater than a stick figure, which is practically one-dimensional. Those are all things that you are going to understand by reading the Instruction Manual.
Where's the Computer?
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| Look, No Computer! (i also occasionally use circlemaker). |
You don't need a light table to get started on making your own. All you need is a notebook, some pencils and some pens. You don't need pencils if you have Techniques.
Here are the products I recommend. (Note: Ordering is not set up yet).
Click [here] to learn more about recommended notebooks.
Click [here] to learn more about recommended pens.
Click [here] to learn more about recommended markers.
If you are satisfied that the choice of materials I recommend has been well-thought and time-tested, then maybe you'd like to go ahead and order a kit.
The kits are organized such that you don't have to browse through the entire menu of options of things to purchase online. They work together with the Lessons on the website, to help you create amazing flipbooks. Here are the kits that Flipbook Island has organized and made available through Hulls
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PRICE TBA The Basic Kits are all the same price (different marker color combinations)
These come in the mail, and are provided by Hull's Art Supplies in New Haven, CT.
This kit allows you to draw a BOT flipbook with the 3 shades of grey, and the pens and markers that have been recommended.
3 Micron Pens [01, 03, 05]
3 No. 10 Rhodias [miniature flipbook graph pads]
3 Prismacolor Markers [ 20% warm grey, 20% cool grey, 40% warm grey ]
Or Perhaps You Would Rather Get These Colors:
This kit allows you to draw a Turtle On A Bicycle Flipbook.
All the color selections have been provided (see bottom)
3 Micron Pens [01, 03, 05]
3 No. 10 Rhodias [miniature flipbook graph pads]
3 Prismacolor Markers [ #s 162, 167, 199 ]
This kit allows you to draw a Yogamatic Flipbook.
All the color selections have been provided.
3 Micron Pens [01, 03, 05]
All the color selections have been provided.
3 Micron Pens [01, 03, 05]
3 No. 10 Rhodias [miniature flipbook graph pads]
3 Prismacolor Markers [ #s pink, purple, skintone ]
The Pro Kit includes more pens than the Basic Kits. It also provides more markers.
PRICE TBA 6 Microns, 5 Prismas, 4 Rhodias.
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| Available At Hulls New Haven Exclusive Art Supplier to Flipbook Island |
You can make your own, simply by using the techniques here on this website, as well as the tools that are found in this section. You don't need computers! All you need is a paper and a pen (and maybe some markers). Sharpen your mind, not your pencil, and you too can produce amazing hand-drawn animations.
Feel free to go simple. Use the margin of an old book and draw wherever there's blank space. Perhaps you've already tried this, with "marginal" success. Then step it up to level 2, which would involve using post-it© notes, and maybe an old bic© pen. That would work.
But if you would like to take it to the highest platform and use the finest tools available, I can recommend a few key products, only because these are what I use, and I would want you to have that information available.
I like to use micron pens, which come in different sizes. Some of them are very thin. You can read about using line thickness techniques [here], because it can be very helpful. The notebooks that I use are made by rhodia, and you can find them at your local art store. There's more information about those little notepads; the graph paper comes in handy and you can learn how to use the graph to help guide things [here]. Finally, the markers that I use are prismacolor, and I know they're expensive (I buy them for $4.19 each, making that wooden box that you see in the picture worth about as much as the average netbook). You will notice on some of the pages that I mention the serial numbers of the actual markers used in the animation sequences that I draw. Here, you can see that I use marker #167, which is green, to draw certain parts of the turtle, using other shades of similar colors to draw the other parts, giving it a more detailed effect. Using many colors is what makes composing these things so time consuming, but it also happens to be what causes them to look so fresh.
As you can see, the products that I use are integral to the system I have developed for drawing these. If you would like to make the most of the educational experience available to you on this website, it's suggested that you get down with having quality materials, to ensure that your hand-drawn animations come out awesome as possible.
You'll also note that there are no pencils listed as tools. That's because I don't use pencils, and you don't have to, either! Because pencils imply that you can erase, and erasing means mistakes, and there are no mistakes on Flipbook Island! There is one thing missing from this list that should be mentioned:
I use a sheet of transparent plastic behind the page that I'm using markers on, because the ink from the marker will bleed through onto the previous page. Another hidden technique is that I draw starting on the page that would be considered "last" by conventional standards. The bottom page in the notepad is the one that I start from, and as soon as you start drawing your own, you will understand why that is helpful.
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