Attached Link: http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/10/create-your-own-scanimation-with.html

There's a cool series of books that have moving pages when the page is turned. [ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=scanimation](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=scanimation)

When I looked up how it's done, I found this site that links to free software that will let anybody create their own animations. Since Poser can be used to create animations, I thought it would be a nice link here. The illusion is created by superimposing multiple frames of an action onto a single image using vertical bars to compose the images and then moving a transparency, with vertical bars that limit what portions of the image are seen. Images are seen when through the clear portions of the transparency. Movement of the transparency shows each frame of the image that has been printed. This creates the illusion of motion on an otherwise single paper.

Silhouettes work best and frame lengths should be less than 10.

I'm not sure what the best Poser settings would be to create a silhouette.

Saving the image as a TIFF or PNG will save a mask that can be opened as a selection. The selection can quickly be painted black since no paint will go outside of the selection.

cool! Thanks.

sevl. methods in poser to do silhouette anims, e.g. anti-aliased silhouette preview mode, ambient with lites off, et al.

This looks cool.

I bought my 2 year old nephew a few books with these things in. When you opened the page it slid the transparent layer over the lined layer made the wheels on the tractor etc turn. He thought they were magic books. Might have a go at making some of these myself!

I think you're talking about a different book that I also have. It uses moire patterns to provide the illusion of water moving, wheels rotating and other effects. It's a brilliant idea, but it's not the same as scanimation.

Scanimation is literally an actual animation. I bought the Star Wars version and Luke battles Darth Vader with light sabres. The Milennium Falcon flies away from the Death Star. There is actual animated movement.

The moire books have images that don't have any actual movement, but moving the transparent layer over the images causes new lines to appear as the lines in the image intersect those on the transparency.

In a lot of ways, I like the moire books more because the drawings look like old fashioned copperplate illustrations with detailed fine lines. The Scanimation books are less detailed because multiple frames of animation are printed on a single page, divided up by the width of the window that they'll be seen in. That forces the images to be chunky without much detail.

If you're at a bookstore, look for the books because they are fascinating.

Attached Link: http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Moving-Picture-Book/dp/0486232247/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313764781&sr=1-7

Here's a link for the Magic Moving Picture Book that uses moire patterns to animate the still artwork.

Bars sometimes have a similar lit picture hanging up that has rippling water, moving smoke, etc.  I remember seeing smaller versions being sold at Mall kiosks, but forget what they're called.