Video Flipbooks inspired by blublu.org

A while back I saw a video by blublu.org and I immediately thought "I want to do this!" The video can be found here, it's almost 10 minutes long, so prepare yourself.  It's basically a large scale flip book - still motion video, so I tried this out in my art class a couple weeks ago.  We watched the video and started out making small scale flip books from wads of post-it notes.  They worked great!  Then I attempted to have the students go larger and integrate a 2D plus 3D element.  I gave the example of a drawing of a ball rolling down the hallway, then maybe a few shots of a real ball rolling down the hallway, then back to the drawing.  Let's just say it is still a work in progress....

I don't think I "chunked" it down enough for complete understanding, and I left it too open.

I think for next time, I will still start small with the flip books (that was a success), then as a class we can decide on the sequence and we all just do it together.

Here is one student's flip book.  I took photos of all of his drawings and then pieced them together in a keynote powerpoint and made a Quicktime recording.