Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand-drawn and stop-motion to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live-action filmmaking. It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories.

一百多年来，动画一直吸引着观众。从手绘和定格动画等经典形式，到动态图形和CGI等尖端技术，动画在创造风格和诗歌方面有着悠久的历史，这是真人电影制作无法实现的。它是一种教育工具，是一个进行实验和娱乐的地方，也是讲述个人故事的一种方式。

This semester in art class our students made a flipbook project, which helped them to understand the concept of movent and animation and also to get used to long, unified, and time-consuming work.

在这学期的美术课上，我们的学生做了一个flipbook（翻页书）项目，这不仅帮助他们理解了运动和动画的概念，也体验了冗长、统一且耗时的工作。

Think about this: Every picture in a flipbook is still. It might be a drawing of a house, or a photo of a butterfly, or a picture of a dinosaur, but each image on each page is motionless on a piece of paper-it does not move at all. However, when you flip the pages quickly, the pictures look like they're moving. This is an illusion of course, but it's rather amazing how much they look like moving images. Now think about this: Every movie you see at a theater, every TV show you watch, every Youtube video, every iPhone video, every video game, even every Imax movie works on the very same basic principle as a flipbook. The moving images are all an illusion created by showing still images very quickly. And this illusion, of still images that look like moving images, takes place because of a fancy term known as persistence of vision.

想想看：flipbook（翻页书）中的每张照片都是静止的。它可能是一幅房子的图画、或一只蝴蝶的照片、或一只恐龙的照片，但每一页上的图像都是静止的在一张纸上，它根本不动。然而，当您快速翻页时，图片看起来像是在移动。当然，这是一种错觉，但令人惊讶的是它们看起来非常像动图。现在想想看：你在电影院看的每部电影、你看的每一个电视节目、每一个Youtube视频、每一个iPhone视频、每一个视频游戏，甚至每一部Imax电影都遵循与flipbook（翻页书）相同的基本原理。动态图像都是通过非常快速地显示静态图像而产生的幻觉。这种看起来像动态图像的错觉，是由一个被称为“视觉暂留”的奇特术语而产生的。

What is the persistence of vision? It is the phenomenon that happens when your eye and brain see two or more images very quickly, one after the other. Your eyes can blend these images so that the brain "sees" them as a smooth movement. That's exactly what your eyes and brain are doing when flipbook a movie or an iPhone video or a flipbook. They are blending individual images to give the illusion of real movement. Remember, this works best when each picture is similar to the next one.

什么是“视觉暂留”？当你的眼睛和大脑非常快速地看到两个或多个图像，一个接着一个时，就会发生这种现象。你的眼睛可以混合这些图像，从而使大脑“看到”它们的平稳运动。这正是你的眼睛和大脑在看电影、iPhone视频或flipbook（翻页书）时所做的事情。他们将单个图像混合在一起，以产生真实运动的错觉。记住，当每张图片与下一张相似时，此方法效果最佳。

A simple flipbook works on the same basic principle that the most advanced movies and videos do. The main difference is that in movies and videos you're looking at pictures of light that are projected or transmitted onto a screen, and in a flipbook, you're looking at pictures that are printed on little pages of paper. Of course, with a flipbook, you get to hold the movie in your hands, and control it yourself!

一本简单的flipbook（翻页书）与最先进的电影和视频所遵循的基本原理相同。主要区别在于，在电影和视频中，你看到的是投射或透射到屏幕上的光的图片，而在flipbook（翻页书）中，你看到的是画在纸上的图像。当然，有了flipbook（翻页书），你就可以将电影控制在自己的手里！

学生心得

Pre 1A 柏奕含Suzy：

This flipbook is my first artwork. When I started doing this work I was very excited but in two weeks I felt it's a little bit hard to keep drawing the same pictures, but whenever I see my work done I think if I will work harder It will be done. My story is about the portrait girl, The Girl With a Pearl Earring. She has a job and the artist wanted to make her smile but she didn't want it because the artist didn't pay anything to her! Why? Why she should do anything that the artist wants?

这本flipbook是我的第一个作品。当我开始做这项工作的时候，我非常兴奋。可在两周后，我觉得继续绘制类似的画有点困难，但每当我想如果我再努力一点，它就会完成，我就又有动力了。我的故事是关于肖像女孩《戴珍珠耳环的少女》。她有一份工作，给艺术家当模特，艺术家想让她微笑，但她不想笑，因为艺术家并没有给她任何报酬！为什么?为什么她要做艺术家想做的事?

Pre 1A 王依凡 Jasmine：

It took me 5 weeks to complete the whole flipbook, I was inspired by the artist Keith Harring. I used pencil, pen, and markers during the process. The most difficult part for me was making the fish into a human, the transition part. I think it was fun to have such art experience.

我花了5周的时间完成了整本flipbook，我的灵感来自于艺术家Keith Harring。在此过程中，我使用了铅笔、钢笔和马克笔。对我来说，最困难的部分是将鱼变成人类的过程。我觉得有这样的艺术体验很有趣。

Pre 1A 童谣Tong

This flipbook shows the growth from a seed to a blooming flower. I used a dotted line for the composition and a marker for color. This is a magic flower, I used 6 colors for the seeds to root and sprout and bloom, the hardest part was switching colors.

这本flipbook展示了从一粒种子到一朵盛开的花的生长过程。我用虚线作为构图，用记号笔上色。这是一朵神奇的花，我用了6种颜色来让种子生根发芽和开花，最难的部分是转换颜色。