TITLE: Flip Book (Mr. Blue Sky)
MEDIA: Stop Motion Animation
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
CLASS: ART 211 Art & Technology
PROFESSOR: Blanka Roundtree
SEMESTER / TERM: SP 18
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa

My flip book, consisting of 400 pages/frames, is a hand-drawn music video to one of the happiest songs of all time, Mr. Blue Sky, by Electric Light Orchestra. Making this animation by hand was definitely more difficult and time consuming than if I were to animate digitally, however I was so happy with the final product that all the hours I spent on this was definitely worth it! Once the book was complete, I then rented a camera and tripod, taped the book down to my desk so it wouldn’t move, and took a snapshot of each and every one of the 400+ pages I had done. And finally, I transferred those pictures from the camera to my computer where I put them in an Adobe Premiere project, adjusted the duration of each photo, and synced up the music.