Mechanized Flip Books
Artist Juan Fontanive has created a series of mechanized flip books of birds in flight. Called Ornithology, the series of animated images are made from 18th and 19th Century natural history illustrations. Juan created collages from the illustrations and set them to flip at the right speed so that what we see is a continuous loop of birds in flight.
“The series began while Fontanive was studying at the Royal College of Art in London in 2004. At that time he collected Victorian clocks from the street markets in East London. He used the clock parts and other found objects to invent the machine that drives the animation. Designing the mechanism over time, the bird animation and machine have informed each other in their development - the wings hinging like paper, and the paper cards flapping at the rate of bird's wings.” juanfontanive.com
You can find more about Juan Fontanive on his website and on Instagram.
You might like to try your hand at making a flip book with the FlipBookit Maker Kit and the instructions found here. [The Brooklyn Refinery is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more]
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