I think it's really neat how a sheet of paper looks perfectly flat and smooth to the naked human eye, but under a microscope, it looks like a terrain map. I love looking at the microscopic world.
the reason it was so hard to draw a straight line at that scale is because of the paper grain. if you want to try it again, you should try a different paper, the smoothest you can find. a higher grade copy paper is probably good enough, but if not, a lot of european and asian papers are coated, making them much smoother
7:47 as someone who is a band member, it does not matter how many wrong notes or mistakes you make while playing, what matters is if you start off on a good note that will bring in your audience and end them off on a good note. your father is correct.
the need to look at something huge rather than the microscopic pages was such a nice touch. like- it shows how we need a change of perspective from time to time. love the work!
You have inspired so many people to become animators by making them create flip books of their own, flip books are the form of traditional hand drawn animation in books without the need of cameras, one of the oldest forms of animation along with Stop-Motion, right before computers created animation softwares like Adobe Animate, Toon Boom, Krita, Source Film Maker, Blender, etc.
This is awesome and adorable. And I could FEEL the intense frustration through the screen. Almost like a sensation of bugs crawling on me and a desire to scream. The dedication is unreal.
There is a good tool to help you draw a straight line under microscope, a manual wire bonder. Back at when I was working at a semiconductor lab, using the knob of that manual wire bonder I was able to bond gold wire at 3μm accuracy. Simpily attach your pencil tip to the wire bonding wedge, you can reach the same accuracy as wire bonding, just remember to turn off the heater beforehead.
the reason for being able to draw smoothly one way and not the other has to do with the grain of the paper. if you try to tear paper, you will find that one direction tears more cleanly than the other; the smoother tear is along the grain, the rough tear is against it that is, perpendicular.
I've been watching you for a few years now and I recently bought your flipbook kit and some of your printed flipbooks. You have really inspired me a lot so thank you and keep up the great work!
