For artist Ben Zurawski, it all began with a simple little book of Mickey Mouse. At age 7, Zurawski's father showed him a flip book that featured Mickey doing a magic trick, and that inspired his ...

Even the simplest flip book is a tedious thing to make, requiring the artist to draw and redraw on page after page. Faced with putting together a few dozen of them for friends, Matthias Dörfelt had a ...

We’ve all seen 3D printed zoetropes, and drawn flip book animations in the corner of notebooks. The shifting, fluid shape of the layers forming on a 3D printer is satisfying. And we all know the joy ...

This article was taken from the June 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on ...