FlipBook

The FlipBook application will allow you yo draw right on the computer with your mouse or tablet. Or you can draw on paper, like the pros, and shoot your rough drawings under a camera for speed and then scan your cleaned-up drawings for quality.

FlipBook will keep track of all your drawings in its traditional exposure sheet with thumbnail images and play them back instantly with sound. FlipBook also provides specially designed tools to help you paint your drawings quickly and easily without having to learn or go through a lot of difficult steps. You can add pans, zooms, rotation, blurs and dissolves and then export movies that you can play on TV or post on the internet.

Storyboards - Get Your Story Straight Once you've got the idea for the storyline you want need pictures to help you tell story. Traditionally these pictures were tacked up on a cork board and moved around until they were finally in the best sequence to tell the story. FlipBook lets you can scan, shoot or draw these pictures directly into the timeline and drag them up and down to change the sequence until the story unfolds just the way you want it to.
Animatics - That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It Once the sequence is the way you want it, it's time to start working on the timing. If you tell the story too fast your viewers don't have time to get involved. If you tell it too slow they lose interest.

FlipBook lets you add the sound track lengthen or shorten any part of the story by simply dragging the storyboard panels up or down, individually or collectively. You can even pan across or zoom in on any of the storyboard panels to show how the scenes will look in the movie. Click below to see the animatic play.

Lip Sync - Read My Lips No matter what kind of animation you do sooner or later you're going to have to break down the dialog into syllables and figure out the correct position of the lips and tongue to so the images will match the sound. FlipBook makes this easy.

Rough Animation - Diamonds in the Rough Animators do rough drawings first and test them for movement before they do the final cleaned-up drawings. These drawings can be basic stick figures, simple shapes with volume or something that actually looks like the character. But right now it's more important to get the position right than to have a perfect drawing.

And it's more important to get the images into the computer quickly than it is to get the best possible image quality. Shooting your roughs into FlipBook with a web cam or video camera is the fastest way to capture your roughs.

Clean-Up Drawings - Back to the Drawing Board When the roughs are done and the timing is all worked you're ready to start on the clean-up drawings. This is where you draw one nice steady line in place of the scribbles you had in your roughs. These are the drawings that will be painted and show up in your movie so you want the best quality you can get, even if it takes a little longer. That's why it's important to scan these drawings.

Ink & Paint - With all the Colors of the Rainbow Whether your film has light, delicate, wispy pastels or strong, bold, saturated colors, FlipBook makes it easy to get just the look you want. And FlipBook has lots of powerful painting tools to help save you time, improve quality and prevent mistakes.