Love the idea, sounds like a very fun and rewarding project. I just purchased one- I used a vertical video so I am hoping the binding is on the proper side (didn't see anything about that on the site).
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#72What is your revenue? and profit?
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#73probably not worth the manufacturing effort, but if you could make a book that flips on both sides, with different clips, that would potentially be novel enough to pass virality coefficients. You'd need some radically different zig-zag binding process ... sounds like a lot of effort but might pay off. Just to be clear I'm not saying duplex print, I'm saying flip right and flip left, same side up
This sounds like a Svengali deck, which just has every other card slightly shorter. Then when you flip from one direction it seems like all of the cards are different, and from the other direction, all of the cards appear the same. Would be easy to do, but in one direction your hand would tend to block the view of the cards.
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#74This is weird, but I make my living by digitizing old flipbooks into MP4 files!
Kiss!
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#75This is weird, but I make my living by digitizing old flipbooks into MP4 files!
OP is single-handedly keeping you in business
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#76This is great! Congrats on the relaunch and finding something tangible that can both pay the bills and work as a family business. Very cool that you were able to bring production in-house.
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY has, among many cool interactive exhibits about animation, a little stage and camera where you can record a short video and then go buy a flipboard version from the gift shop. They print it out and construct it right there for you (and it really does look like a pain). We’ve bought a couple and they’re really fun.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also lenticular cards: https://gifpop.io/
Is that not very dead? I remember trying to order some gifpop stuff back in 2021/22 and they were gone by then. I see the "make your own" page on the site is broken, the blog entries are from 2017 (hover over the bottom of each one). The copyright's updated but I think that's automatic. I only wanted a couple of images. From what I remember of gifpop, they originally did this using a machine that was intended as a we…
Oh, I think you’re right; I remember it back then and I think it did die. :(
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#78Nice, can't decide what meme gif to try first.
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#79How do you actually do the manufacturing? What machines does one need to do something like this?
Looks like a Boway K5 for doing the bindings (In a photo on their about page)
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#80Great idea! It is cool seeing how you took this concept and made it real, end to end. I'm also considering getting a flipbook.