07Stick figure animation
a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
Notebook doodle animation brings blue ballpoint sketches on lined paper to life.
11A ballpoint-pen doodle on lined notebook paper: everything drawn in blue ballpoint ink with quick, loose strokes, scribbled cross-hatch shading and a few doodled stars in the margin, the faint blue ruled lines and red margin line of the page showing through, the doodle redrawn slightly every frame so it quivers like a margin flipbook. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a doodled girl with a scribbly bob and a striped T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a doodled watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and a few scribbled droplets fall onto the leaves. 2–4s: a doodled paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: everything stays blue ballpoint doodle on lined notebook paper, quivering slightly from frame to frame, one continuous take.
A ballpoint-pen doodle on lined notebook paper: everything drawn in blue ballpoint ink with quick, loose strokes, scribbled cross-hatch shading and a few doodled stars in the margin, the faint blue ruled lines and red margin line of the page showing through, the doodle redrawn slightly every frame so it quivers like a margin flipbook.
Name the paper as well as the pen. The ruled lines, the red margin and a few margin stars are what make it read as a notebook rather than a sketch.
07a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
08a white-line stick figure drawn into real footage
09marker drawings sketching themselves on a whiteboard