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Originally Posted by j.p.s
What about lenticular printing and flip books?
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A) It's expensive.
B) It's not really animation, though we bought some wildlife ones that are well done.
C) It's two or three images printed in interleaved strips. It's a prism over each group of strips, not a lens. The prisms are a single sheet of grooved plastic. At least existed in 1960s. Might be much older.
I love the 3D popup books the Victorians invented. They are rather fragile and even the contemporary ones don't survive long. They had various animated gadgets, usually just a short sequence. Essentially mechanical gifs.
I have this one, in poor condition:
The Model Menagerie (1895)
However I've bought contemporary ones for pre-school kids, some of which have tabs rather than pop-up when page turned.
Books with lights and sound effects are usually totally rubbish. A cloth or board book holds interest longer.
Stereoscopic isn't really 3D at all and very poor for stills. Doesn't even work well for about 1/5th of people. A Victorian invention surviving as the Viewmaster using discs of dual images.
None of these are any good for any length of story or informational, hence replaced by CDs and then CDs by Web pages and now Apps for iOS and Android.
The kids in the wider family and the adults (5 to 90) want either books, games, or video. Not animated books. Only the older kids (from maybe 9) to 90 yo are happy to read on eInk or paper. The youngest ones want paper, or boards or cloth.