Open Flip Book — Live Flip Books You Turn

What is Open Flip Book

Open Flip Book binds a motion as a book of stills. Twenty-four frames are printed on real pages, each one registered exactly on the last, so turning the pages is the animation. Turn a leaf and a real sheet curls over as it comes across — the flip book you remember, except the page genuinely turns and the book keeps your place.

The shelf

Five flip books, twenty-four stills each:

• The Owl — a barn owl on a post, and then in the air
• The Stag — a white stag out of the mist
• The Broom — a broom that leaves the floor
• The Boat — a paper boat with a candle
• The Comet — a comet over black hills

What every flip book ships with

• Two ways to flip — a slow paper turn, where the sheet curls as it comes over, and a fast frame cut, which is what a paper flip book does under a thumb
• Exact registration — every still centre-cropped to the same page proportion, so nothing drifts between pages
• A real book — covers, a page block with sheet edges, a gutter and folio numbers
• A thumb on the corner — drag to flip, tap the arrows, hold auto-flip to riffle, or press space to cut straight through
• A bookmark that keeps — close it and it reopens on the still you left
• Its own page — every flip book publishes to a shareable URL and can go live under neta.art/app

How to use

Open any book above and flip it. Drag a corner, use the arrows, or press space to riffle. Nothing to install, no signup.

Read more

• What a flip book is
• Animated flip books
• From one sentence
• Animation, without animating
• Open the flip book maker
• Sister collection: 3D pop-up storybooks

About

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