Not often do you see flip books animations considering that it is a rather primitive form of animation as compared to the rest but if you do look hard enough, you will learn that numerous talented artists out there still create them, and for really unique purposes.
Etoilec1
This talented fellow has worked on numerous flip book replicating scenes from existing animations, music videos, video games and even sport events, I just find it amazing that he is able to closely and smoothly replicate all dynamic actions into a tiny little book, be they live-action or animated.
It's also a plus that his works are so cleanly done (While also managing to add in a decent amount of coloring details to each frame), he also does a great job in animating glowing lights, shooting beams and energy blasts (As seen in his Dragon Ball flip book series).
DispleasedEskimo (James (Jamie) Francis Bell
While the style of the animation shown below does not appear as appealing as Etoilec's works, its contents, length (Hundreds of pages must have been used!) and fluidity of it's humorously styled narrative more than makes up for it. The application of animation principles are more notable here especially, such as the exaggeration, timing, anticipation, and of course simply going straight ahead without the use of any key frames. It is overall a brilliantly done presentation of the "History of Pretty Much Everything".
Igviewty
A high speed recording was used when showing this crazily detailed (And realistically drawn to add) flip book animation, so to properly bring out certain scenes (Instead of simply drawing less or more frames in between)… though then again it was done for a mobile phone advertisement (Hence why the camera was used in the first place). It had some fantastically done camera angles and perspectives (Such as that fish eye view of Mona Lisa as the bullet zips by), it is all just so nicely animated and well drawn.
I remembered seeing a fantastic one that was used to present a logo design to a company, sadly I can't find it, but it just shows that flip books can be used for other means!
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