At the beginning of last year, I started my Page-A-Day Flip Book, and I’m happy to say it’s finally finished! The aim of the project was to draw one page every day, and see where it led. Although I missed a few weeks here and there, I managed to keep it going all year, and finally finished it up last month.
The project had its challenges. For one thing, if a flip book gets too long, it becomes hard to flip. This animation filled three tablets, so I could never see how the entire thing looked. I also made a rule that I could only draw one page at a time, so I didn’t do any keyframing or storyboarding. And I didn’t allow myself to go back and change drawings, other than minor cleanup. This made it difficult to control timing, but it was a great challenge.
I photographed each page with a digital camera and assembled the images in Flash before exporting as a Quicktime. I worked out music on the ukulele that would fit the piece, and put it all together. It was a fun project, and I hope you enjoy watching it!
I love this! So whimsical and fun. Your year of work really paid off.
beautiful!!!
Wonderful! Fantastic! Thanks!
WOW!
Holy Toledo, this looks awesome! And the music fits perfectly.
You are so stinkin’ talented, it’s ridiculous. That music was perfect, and the story of the boy’s journeys was whimsical and sweet. Way to go, John!
Wow – very cool project and a great looking piece at the end.
Way to go John! It came out spectacular!!
I love how it turned out!! It looks so great. I want to make one now!
So amazing! Thank you for the gift.
I *love* this. Wow, what a project. And…you play UKELELE?!??
Awesome!
It’s WONDERFUL! I was smiling through the whole thing, and that’s my highest compliment!
Wow! This is wonderful John! And the music is perfect! Great work!
This is great!!! Congratulations!!! I enjoyed a lot watchig it, listening to your wonderful ukulele and also your sharing of the process 🙂
Pretty cool to think you created this bit by bit… So wonderful!
Thanks everybody! All this positive feedback is really inspiring, and I definitely plan to do more animation in the future.
Wow. This is amazing, John. My son and I enjoyed watching this a few times over. 🙂