Creating Flipbooks

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The Flipbook tools are only available in Sketchbook Pro on Mac and Windows desktop


From the menu, click on File > New Flipbook. A menu will appear for you to select a New Empty Flipbook, or to create one from an existing Image Sequence.

New Empty Flipbook – Create a new, blank animation sequence.

An Animation Size window will open that lets you define the settings for the animation

  1. Set the Frame Size
    • Select from a list of preset sizes, or manually enter the pixel dimensions 
    • The frame size cannot be changed after this is set.
  2. Set the Frame Rate
  3. Set the Frame Number
    • This is the number of blank frames that appear in the timeline.
    • This can be adjusted later, but a Flipbook cannot exceed 1000 frames

New Flipbook from Image Sequence – This option will open a browser window to allow you to select a sequence of images as your starting point.

  • These images could be created from another application, such as Maya, 3DMax, or Blender.
    • Images must be PNG, JPG, BMP or PSD images.
    • They all must be the same resolution.
    • They must be named with sequential numbering.
  • The Flipbook will use the Frame size of the images and automatically place them into keyframes as a single layer.
  • PSD files with layers will be flattened to a single layer.

 

Flipbook files

Flipbooks save as .skba files. You can export your files as movies files or sequences of images