Stick Figure Flip Book Animation

Supplies
Small pad of paper or sticky notes
Pen or fine tip marker
Steps
1. Practice drawing different stick figures
2. Practice “walk the dot” in your sticky notes
3. Draw a stick figure raising and lowering their arms
4. Draw a stick figure jumping
Adaptions
Younger children can do this using only two or three pages, eyes opening and shutting for
example
Extensions
Create an animated story about something that happened to you
Artists/Art
Holepunch Flip Book by Scott Blake
Bird and Butterfly flip book by Juan Fontanive
Books
Apollo 11: The Animated Journey by Flipboku
Fliptomania Escher Flipbook by fliptomania
Homework
Do a flip book animation of the figure in motion (playing a sport, flossing, dancing, jumping)
Vocabulary
Animation
Kineograph
Phenakistoscope
Mutoscope
Tips
Start at the back page and trace through . Use a marker for walk the dot.
This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
Music A Piano Tale by Immersive Music
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