Gallop 是 2007 年最新出版的動畫書,是童書出版界最新的創舉!不必安裝電池,運用了一種叫做 Scanimation 的專利新科技,讓每一頁不同的動物(甚至是星星)活靈活現,真的動了起來。它會讓小朋友甚至是大人,很難不會翻頁翻上了癮,一翻再翻。
關於作者Rufus Seder
Rufus Butler Seder 是 Lifetiles 的發明者,那是一種用玻璃磚做的壁畫,在觀看者經過時,會像是活過來了一樣;他把這些壁畫裝置在 Smithsonian、 Sea World、Union Station,以及全世界其他的博物館、水族館、車站以及郵輪。他同時也是 Eye Think, Inc. 的創立者,一家使用他所研發的科技來開發製造玩具與禮品的公司。Seder先生目前居住於波士頓。
There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.
A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action-or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo!
Every child who opens the book will be amazed-and so will every parent.