As a kid my imagination lit up as I made countless flipbooks, experimented with stop-motion, and studied drawing. In college I studied filmmaking and began working professionally as a stop-motion animator. Eventually I was lucky enough to animate on four of Laika’s Oscar-nominated movies, including Missing Link, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. I love animating, directing, and writing. I live near Portland, Oregon with my wife and three boys, and they are the absolute best.

The Starter Flipbook Kit

So Laurie and I set out together designing the perfect kit for making flipbooks. I spent three years prototyping the ideal light pad for tracing. We made prototype after prototype and kept tweaking and refining. I tested loads of different paper stock until I found just the right paper. We made custom-sized binding posts. And we were obsessive about our packaging. Eventually we ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for manufacturing, and… failed. Yup, our Kickstarter failed. But we were not deterred! My YouTube channel was growing quickly. So we started over again, ran a new Kickstarter campaign, and the second time around… succeeded! With funding in hand we were finally able to manufacture our first huge batch of Flipbook Kits. And now–one long road later–here we are! We’ve sold thousands of our original Flipbook Kit all over the world, and now we’re excited to introduce our brand new Starter Flipbook Kit.