DIY Flipbook Animation Booth?

October 1, 2014 8:59 AM

We'd like to set up a a Flip Book Animation Booth (similar to this http://www.alittlescene.com/) at our wedding. We're getting married in Cape Town, South Africa and haven't been able to find anyone there that does it so we're trying to figure out the logistics of setting it up ourselves. What equipment, software etc. do we need? We're willing to shlep it to SA from the US.
posted by doublenelson to Technology (2 answers total)

Best answer: Interesting, I haven't seen this done before but I could imagine on the software side a small processing sketch to capture a few seconds of video and crop it into a series of images and save them out as a PDF wouldn't be too hard.

Equipment wise I guess you'd need:

A video camera that can be set up as a capture device.
A laptop - & maybe a second screen so people can see themselves?
An inkjet printer (and lots of ink.)

In that video they had some nifty electric paper cutter but you could probably do it with a guillotine.

A big, heavy duty, stapler.
posted by pmcp at 6:35 PM on October 1, 2014

Response by poster: For future reference, this is what is needed:

Software - there's a range out there from very professional to more DIY
Business Card Cutter (something like this)
Color Laser Printer that will print without a curl
Heavy duty Stapler
Laptop
Webcam
Lights, Screen & Props
TV & Touch Screen with stand
posted by doublenelson at 10:49 AM on October 15, 2014