Jun 012020
Pick and mix starter activities – do at least one of these
- Create a page-flick animation
- Learn about the history of animating – how was it done before computers?
- Watch an episode of Ivor the Engine – think about how they did the animation – which part move/don’t move?
Practise your animatin skills on one of these:
- JIT5 animation
- Gifpain gifpaint
- Animation app on your phone or tablet
Tell a short story through animation
- Choose a short story – Shackleton, a Bible story, an fable by Aesop,…or you could just choose one scene from a story
- Sketch out a storyboard and mini-script to tell the story/scene
- Decide on the following
- How many scenes?
- What moving part do you need?
- What backgrounds do you need?
- If you are using an animation app that uses the camera, make your backgrounds, characters and props for your scene (make them simple, big and bold)
- Create your animation!
Share your animations
- In JIT5 click “save as gif”. Or you could include your JIT5 animate in a mix page with text and audio.
- Gifpain you can save as a .gif file then upload to j2e files
- Phone/tablet app – save your animation and upload to j2e files.
Questions?
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