Hey readers, today’s blog post is going to be about something I LOVE to do in my free time- animation. You may think about a flipbook when you hear the word animation, and they are kind of related. You can make animations with an electrical device (phones, iPads, laptops, etc…) or you can make it using pictures or paper. Enjoy!!!

1 – online

This type of animation is made online on electrical devices and are made with apps. I highly recommend using an app called flipaclip. It is the app I use to animate and it’s very easy to use it and it’s loads of fun! You can add music, pictures and shapes and loads more!!! You can also animate real videos by adding it in the frames/slides! I love flipaclip and if you want a beginner start for animating, I suggest you use that app.

There are also other apps for animating, I have not used them but it is one of the good apps to use. Some of them are- procreate, animation desk, paper and more.

2- stopmotion

This type of animation is called stop-motion animation. Basically, here, you take pictures of real-life things in an animating order. Like if you’re animating a cake, you start by taking a picture of a full cake. Then you slice it a little bit then take a picture of that, slice it more then take a picture of that, and so on. I have no clue what apps are really good for this kind of animation, but if you think about it, flipaclip could be great here as well! You just put pics in each slide/frame then you’re done. BOOM!!!!

3- flipbook

I think most people might’ve heard about this one. It’s called flipbook animation and you animation this with paper and pens. You just draw pictures on each slide and then flip the book to get a very simple but cool animation!

This animation is commonly done on corners of post-it note packs or the corners of rough books. Simple!!!

So guys, I hope you enjoyed reading this post and I hope you found some interest in animating and remember, the number one rule is… ALWAYS HAVE FUN!!! 😊😊😊

Overall, an animation is a sort of cartoon and you can make it by drawing things in slides/frames and I think flipaclip is the best animating app to use.

Here are some animations I made myself, from flipaclip!!!— WARNING- DON’T HEAR ON FULL VOLUME!

This animation is called random events as things lead randomly to something else!

This one is called dance and it’s a basic dance animation. it’s very quick so you’ll have to play it on loop.