Flip book

When creating this project I could not think of any ideas that would be able to last 200 frames, so that is why I made 2 separate visuals. As you flip the book in chronological order one story develops, then as you flip through it upside down and backwards, there is a totally different visual created. My inspiration for each creation came from my love for nature. The beach is one of my favorite places which is why I decided to make a fish being eaten by a shark and a sailboat sailing across the water for the first part. I had planned to have a shark eat the fish from the beginning because I wanted to show movement across the pages. Then, as I started to draw it I realized it was somewhat boring so I decided for a tragedy to occur which is how I decided to have the boat crash into a rock. My inspiration for that part also came from the Titanic; having a ship peacefully go across the ocean when disaster strikes and the boat goes down.
Once that piece was complete I still needed more, so being in Florida I decided to draw a palm tree, but there aren't any palm trees in the middle of the ocean so I had to figure out a way to get to land. My vision for this was just to have the pictures scan across the ocean until they reached landfall. After a few pages of the ocean levels decreasing, I got to land and found a palm tree with coconuts! Then I remembered in cartoons coconuts always fall from trees and hit people on the head, but decided to have a man who is stranded on this island shake the tree for coconuts. I enjoyed this part of the project because I liked how the movement of the tree came out. Once the man had shaken the tree and picked up the coconuts I was almost to the end, which I then made the man walk away with hopes of being rescued.
I knew for the second part of my flip book I wanted to show some type of evolution which automatically makes me think of birds and eggs. Showing the mother bird lay the egg, fly away and having the bird hatch was really fun for me to make. When the egg was hatching I tried to make it seem like the picture was zoomed in by making the nest bigger, but I don't think I was successful in portraying that and I would go back and change that if I had the chance to. Once the cute little bird was alive, I wanted to add humor which is where the man on the bench comes in. Again with the stereotypes, creating the bird-pooping-on-head was my humor to this project. I am not a good artist in the least bit, but I tried drawing a bird to the best of my ability. Zooming in on the man's face shows the emotion he was feeling after a bird pooping on his head. Although this project is simple, it is to my fullest potential and effort was not lacking.