The Flippist

Art and Flipbooks by Ben

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I don't know what it is about them, but drawing pumpkins just makes me happy. Had a lot of fun making this flipbook for a couple that met on the dating app Tinder. Her initial profile picture was in a pumpkin patch, one of their first dates they walked their dogs past an old train tunnel, and the fella used the drawings in the flipbook to set up a fall scene for the proposal (at that same pumpkin patch) Such a great idea...check it out a few pics back. Man! I frickin' love fall!! Happy October everybody!

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Based off the animation in the previous post, here's a "flipbook" animation that I added to the wheel of a New York taxi cab. A Swiss filmmaker is taking the cab on a roadtrip across the US and stopping along the way to have artist contribute to it.

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Wrapping up a fun little backwards time-traveling marriage proposal flipbook. Yeah...those last 20 years were rough on both of them...Stay tuned for the final video :)

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Well it’s official...my stuff is so awesome it’s being counterfeited: http://www.theflippist.com/blog/2015/7/9/well-i-guess-ive-made-itmy-flipbooks-have-been-counterfeited-alot

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Honestly I'm not a huge hockey fan or sports fan for that matter. As as a Chicagoan & a human that likes joy, I love how the whole city unites and there are positives vibes in the air. Here's a #ChicagoBlackhawks flipbook I made to celebrate their Stanley Cup win.

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This is one of my absolute favorites from my #flipbookcollection . "Biofix" was a company (over 100 years ago) that offered this brand new service of a miniature one-of-a-kind home movie...kind of in the style of a photobooth. I love this little living piece of history that just shows a Victorian era family being silly. In today's money, each flipbook would have cost roughly $40-50 so it was a frivolous item that really only the semi-wealthy would have been purchasing. Still though, a very special item to show loved ones in motion considering home movies were still many decades away.

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The internet is an amazing thing! These are visual aids that a (way cool!) student in Venezuela used for a report on little old ME! So cool and absolutely made me cry a couple proud tears.

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Here's a favorite from my #flipbookcollection animated with strategically placed hole-punches by artist & fellow flipbook maker @scott_blake

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Part of my #flipbookcollection Drawn by the incredible flipbook artist Ruth Hayes in 1988. Rated XBR for extreme birthing reality. Although I imagine there's more goop in real life

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One of the more STABBY covers I my #flipbookcollection . Printed in the 70s from England.

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Here's a fake aquarium zoetrope I made in my fine art college days.

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Here's a couple of flipbooks I made 10 years ago showing the tragic results of eating too big of a meal.

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There's something unsettling about this apple magnet I found on a truckstop floor last year...you can just tell he's got secrets.

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Here's a few more examples of my use of models so my simple brain can understand and animate a more complex transition.

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Another from my #flipbookcollection made for a Japanese fast food company. We've got a soft friendly looking cat...we've got a hamburger....this flipbook HAS IT ALL!

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A weird and wonderful flipbook from my #flipbookcollection by an artist named Kathy Rose showing all the characters that live inside of a cartoonist. I would guess its from the late 70s.

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I don't know how to feel about this whole #thedress thing. Someone hold me.