Disney Week Computing

Year 3 LF Animate a word in JIT5

• Animate a word

Year 5 LF Create animation effects in JIT5

Watch I see a song together

1. Animation effects
2. Sports animation

Year 4 LF Animate running and jumping in JIT5

1. j2launch – JIT5
2. Animate – choose blank background
3. Draw a simple stick figure, copying the first picture on the sheet
4. Click on the GREEN plug sign to move to the next frame
5. Draw the next picture – repeat
6. ** For the running animation, draw in the ground dashed – move it towards the runner each frame to make it look as if they are moving.
7. See examples here

Year 6 LF Animate a monster in JIT5

Tutorial Video – Screencastify

Tutorial Video – Google

1. JIT5
   1. j2launch – JIT5
   2. Animate – choose blank or simple background
2. Title
   1. Click on “Animals” and then select “abc”
   2. Click on one of the 3 a’s then type eg “Ben’s monster” to make a text stamp
   3. Customise – make it bigger, coloured
   4. Stamp it in one corner of the page
3. Monster body
   1. Draw your monster body and white eye – don’t put the pupil in because you might want to move this
   2. Click the RED plus button lots of times to make lots of copies of this frame
4. Monster moves
   1. Draw in arms and legs on the first frame
   2. On each next frame – draw armsl legs and pupils slightly differently to make your monster move, walk (on the spot), dance, smile, roar….
5. Extras
   1. Walking – if your monster is walking, draw in the ground, maybe dashed then move it a bit each time so it looks as if your monster is moving. You could also animate trees, objects, clouds that make it look as if it is moving.
   2. Another monster – once you have done one monster, add another, frame by frame
   3. Other objects – eg ball.
6. Saving
   1. Give your file a name (above the animation) and save it
   2. Also, “Save as GIF”
   3. What is the best way to share these in the end of week celebration? QR codes, all on one j2e5 page, website,….?
   4. What other tools could you do this with?