Scanimation Books

Book 1. Star War: 

This book is adapted based on the movie Star War. It is of 7in * 5in size. Black and white is the dominant hue of this book. All the inner pages are black. Scannimation pictures have white background. All the words in this book are either red or white. They float on the black background, enforcing the visual contrast. Scanimation pictures are the only image style in this book. Because scannimation can show different actions within one frame, the black and white hue of this book would not bore the readers but have them focus on those pictures.

Book 2. Swing and Gallop: 

This 5in*8in book takes advantages of the features of scanimation picture to demonstrate different actions of people and animals, like “swing” and “callop”. Each facing pages introduces an action: the left hand side page brings up a question “can you …?”, which is written in a large size and a bright color; then on the right hand side page, this action will be demonstrated by the scanimation picture, and several related words to this action are aligned in lines below this picture to help children make more sense on this action. Since the color of all scanimation pictures in this book is black and grey, in order to make this book more attractive to children, seven bright colors(red, blue, orange, green, yellow and pink) are used for words and page decoration elements. Some words are even combined with different colored letters. 

Book 3. Dancing dreams: 

In this 10in*13in book, scanimation is not the only image style. Actually, most of the pictures in this are delicate and colorful illustrations which can be commonly found in other children’s picture books. Scanimation pictures are only added to each right hand side page within a small area. Since the scanimation pictures in this book are also full of colors, the words of this book are all black and in a single type. I think the most exciting creation in this book is the design of those dancing platforms. The author smartly combined the scanimation pictures with common illustrations.