Before I attempted my watermelon flip book I wanted to do a bunch of research on really nice flip books from people who either do it as a living or have a deep interest in it. I came across this one by Reja Petrov and I just wish I could create one like this. Though it is really long, therefore has lots of frames and must have taken a really long time to put together, I love the style of it. I looked further into Reja Petrov and came across her website which I LOVE. She is obsessed with colour like me, as in neon and electric aesthetics and this makes me so pleased! I can't even begin to describe her art style. but it is portrayed in this flip book similarly as well and I just love it. She's really good at her use of timing and also squash and stretch for example her character watching the television, which just makes her flip book look so clean and realistic for what it is. And it has given me a good few ideas.
This next flip book has a very modern and sharp aesthetic. It uses text which is something I never considered to add before, but I think it would be a nice touch to add to my own because I really enjoyed it here. It's frames do not easily transition into each other after the text sequence, because the styles of the illustrations are very different to the conventional flip book character animation. The horse reminds me of a chess piece, but I love how crisp and clear the illustrations are. Also there are no shadows and no colour, but I think it works really well because it's purpose is to provide a visual representation of how the Commando Group settled on how they chose their logo. It is vert simplistic, but it has prompted me to add text into my next flip book and see how that goes.
The last flip book I decided to research about was 'Flip It' by James Webber. I LOVE the use of existing images. It's like a stop motion flip book, it's brilliant. James Webber is a graphic designer which explains why he used images of real life people and things as opposed to drawing them, but it is a really unique take on a flip book. I would love to try this out if I had the materials and facilities to produce one of these, but I think it is such a clever way to produce a flip book. I would have to pre plan the squash and stretch principle however, because I would not be drawing it, I would be taking an image of a person/object which I would imagine is a lot harder.
In conclusion my research on flip books has provided me with a BUNCH of ideas for my next flip book which has made me really excited. I would love to try using text and also changing up the style of my illustrations and see how it goes. But I found this research to be extremely useful, and will look at some more to see what else I can find.
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