About Us

Just in case you want to know . . .

In 1999, we left our Ren and Stimpy roots behind and started a new company to get a fresh start designing new software that would be more powerful and easier to use. So DigiCel FlipBook was designed from the ground up for studios, schools, teachers and students who want to follow the traditional animation process.

Klasky-Csupo was the first studio to pick up FlipBook during production of The Wild Thornberrys. The animators loved it so they used it on Rugrats Go Wild. After that many of the animators went to work on Looney Tunes Back in Action for Warner Bros. When they got there they asked WB to get FlipBook for them to use. FlipBook was particularly helpful in matching all of the pencil drawings to the live action backgrounds.

When Universal Studios start work on Curious George they had animators working all over the country so FlipBook made it easier for them to all submit their pencil test videos for review and approval before sending in the final drawings.

Then Film Roman started using FlipBook on The Simpsons Movie. That was the first big test for our new Mac version because up until then everything had been done on PCs.

When work began on The Princess and the Frog, Disney tried to get the animators to draw in the same software that the ink and paint department was using but after trying it the animators said “Animation is hard enough without making us use this software. We want FlipBook.” So Disney let them use FlipBook and they were happy. 

Even though 3D animation has pretty much taken over in the theaters, most of the good animation schools still teach 2D animation and many of them require students to take 2D classes and use FlipBook to help them learn about frame-by-frame timing so FlipBook’s main customer base now is schools, teachers and students. That’s why we offer our educational prices to everyone. We also offer free technical support.

So if you’re interested in learning, doing or getting better at animation, we can help. 

FlipBook and our new FlipPad make animation easier for teachers to teach, students to learn and pros to produce.