FlipBook is our original award winning app for people who like to draw and want to do traditional, hand-drawn animation. The Windows version launched in 1999 and runs on anything from Windows 95 to Windows 11. The Mac version came out a little later and runs on anything from Tiger (10.4) to Mohave (10.14).

FlipBook Feature Videos

Introduction to FlipBook!

This video shows you what you can do with FlipBook.  The videos below show you how to do it.

Really Simple Drawing

This video shows you how to draw and play your own 2D animation in the simplest way possible.

More Complete Pencil Test Part 1

This pencil test video was done by Jason Ryan, a professional animator for Disney, Dreamworks and Cinesite. It gives you a more complete view of how to animate a real scene in FlipBook.

More Complete Pencil Test Part 2

Because Jason’s pencil test video is so complete, we split it into 2 parts. This is part 2.

Painting

This video shows you how to paint your cartoon animation in FlipBook. FlipBook has several painting features that no other app has. These features make painting in FlipBook faster and easier than any other app.

Simple Zoom

This shows you how to zoom in on or scale a single character or object in the foreground. You can zoom or scale everything together or separately. It’s all determined by which levels or pegbars you choose to include in your zoom.

Simple Pan

This video shows how to pan your character (or object) across the screen in from of the background. You could also pan the background while the character walk in place by selecting to pan the background peg bar instead of a foreground pegbar.