Thanks to the discovery of Wave interference by physicians, we can put an animation using only foil and paper in your hands. The animation does not consume electricity and has no mechanical parts.

The Animated Greeting Card consists of the revealing layer and the base layer. The revealing layer has equally spaced transparent lines. The base layer contains periodically repeating portions of animation frames. As you slide out the inner card with an animation, individual frames on the base layer show up through transparent lines. As a result, at any given moment, you only see a single frame or a transitional state between two frames that add realism to the animation. This illusion also works because our brains only need a fragment of the whole picture to clearly perceive the entire image.

 

 

But don’t worry about technicalities, papermate.io web app will help you create the whole animation. Your only task will be to find a GIF or choose a Video.

The technology used on papermate.io may resemble the lenticular printing technique that was used, for example, on Tazos. However, there are vast differences: depending on the angle at which we look at the lenticular print, we will either see an image that will move when we move our head or see an image in 3D. The card will only look good at the angle at which it was designed.

 

 

Unlike that, an Animated Greeting Card will look the same way no matter the angle you look at it, and it will animate only when you slide out the inner image.

According to Kickstarter