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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:00 |
The following lesson is a great activity to reinforce animation skills and introduce students to stop-motion and operating a digital camera, without a whole lot of labor up front for students. The simplest interpretations of this project can be letters cut from construction paper dancing across the screen, though I've had students really push the boundaries and come up with some pretty, complex outcomes, too.
Learning Objective:
Students will make a short, stop-motion animated movie that displays their name.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 04 February 2012 15:22 |
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Tips and Tricks
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Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00 |
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One the of main things that I see students struggle with is not doing enough 'tweening. They simply don't grasp how many frames it takes to make a fluid animation. I tried showing short clips frame by frame, but it was tricky to cue the DVD up to the right spot.
Then I discovered GIFFrame, which is a simple utility to extract frames from an animated GIF and save them as a JPEG or PNG. What I have been using it for is to take animated gifs (mostly from http://thedreamthatyouwish.tumblr.com) and opening them up in this application on my SMARTBoard. I can easily toggle through each frame to show my students how many frames it takes to do certain movements and to analyze the movement.
GIFFrame is freeware and is available at http://evanolds.com/. I think it has been really helpful to my students when they are thinking about how many frames to use when they are animating. |
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for inspiration, students will make their own Flip-O-Rama.