My flipbook told the story of a man who comes to look at a piece of art. The process of drawing the splat on 50 index cards
was long and tedious, as I wanted to make the movement from frame to frame as seamless as possible. I drew each frame on my cutting board,
which was on top of a lamp. This allowed me to be see through the index cards, to get the positions as accurately as possible.
After sharing my flipbook with my class, I got very good feedback on this first prototype. Everyone thought that the humor of my drawing was really successful,
and they wanted to see more. "What happens next?" they kept asking. This lead me to start thinking about my character, and what his relationship was to this splat on the wall. I decided
to further develop my narrative for the animatic and created a storyboard to specify the exact frames that I would want to use. This would save me time when I actually would sit down to
illustrate them.
From there I create each frame in Illustrator, keeping in mind the South Park style that I wanted to incorporate. I found this method of creating frames to be pretty easy, as I could move each object just a few pixles to create the sense of movement. It definitely didn't take as long as the flipbook.
Finally, I brought my static frames into Final Cut Pro, and with the use of timing and sound, told my story of the abstract splat that I had been given several days before. I presented this also to my class, and they loved that I pushed forward the narrative of my flipbook.