Sophomore Flip Books

Begin sophomore year! Everyone was excited to finally be starting their majors. It was nice to see that my animation class was made up of mostly people I hadn't had the chance to interact with much. Little did I know that these people would become my dearest friends. Our first assignment was to do a series of flip books on various topics, something beautiful, something ugly, something observed and something strange. I decided to make my series blend into each other. The main idea with this assignment was to get us thinking in a linear pattern. Also Doug collected all of the books and would not return them until the end of the year so we could have a chance to see how far we'd come in a year.

A Day in the Life of a Star

Here is another flipbook experiment from high school. For this one I used some cheep oil pastels on notecards and again assembled it in Adobe Premier Pro.

Flat Tire

So after my exposure to animation, I went back to High School and utilized some Independent study courses to delve further into this art form. So here is one of my crappy high school films called Flat Tire. I animated this flip-book style and then scanned in each frame and put them together in Adobe Premier pro (this was way before I ever learned of After Effects).

First Flip Book

In the summer of 2005 I decided to enroll in a summer class at the Kansas City Art Institute. The class was an intro to animation crash course taught by Doug Hudson, who also happened to be the head of the newly established animation program at the school. The first assignment was a flip book and I, drawing mainly on my influence by legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt, came up with this.