Remaking My First Flipbook 30 YEARS LATER

Andymation・7 minutes read

The creator reflects on their childhood flipbook, embarking on a project to recreate it with enhanced features like three-dimensionality and exaggerated perspective. After finding the original and detailing the drawing process with new techniques and materials, they complete the remastered flipbook 30 years later, with Wix's support for a new website.

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  • The creator revisits a childhood flipbook project, detailing the meticulous process of recreating it with enhanced techniques like three-dimensionality and exaggerated perspectives.
  • Through experimentation with color choices, movement acceleration, and detailed additions like eye vibration, the creator successfully completes the remastered flipbook, showcasing a blend of nostalgia and modern artistic skills, all sponsored by Wix for the creation of a new website.

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Recent questions

  • How did the creator start their flipbook journey?

    By making their first flipbook as a child.

  • What challenges did the creator face in recreating the flipbook?

    Finding the original flipbook in a storage unit.

  • How did the creator enhance the new flipbook's visuals?

    By adding three-dimensionality and exaggerated perspective.

  • What tools did the creator use for coloring the flipbook?

    Copic markers to match the original monster's colors.

  • How did the creator complete the remastered flipbook?

    By adding details like eye popping in with vibration and monster expressions.

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"Remastering Childhood Flipbook: A Journey Home"

  • The creator reminisces about making their first flipbook as a child, deciding to recreate it as an adult, but faces the challenge of finding it in their storage unit 100 miles away.
  • After locating the original flipbook, the creator describes how they stapled and taped the pages together as a child, planning to make a remastered version with added three-dimensionality and exaggerated perspective.
  • The creator explains their process of drawing the pencil in the new flipbook, focusing on changing perspectives, accelerating movements, and adding rotation for a more natural feel.
  • They discuss their color choices for the new flipbook, testing copic markers to match the original monster's colors and shading the pencil to give it a three-dimensional look.
  • In the final stages, the creator adds details like the eye popping in with vibration and the monster's expressions, completing the remastered flipbook 30 years later and thanking Wix for sponsoring the video and helping them create a new website.
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