My first group of 4th graders met the other day to learn about stop animation. Most cartoons use a version of this and so do flip books. I showed them the app iMotion HD and then gave them some time just to play and get use to the features of the app. While the video is only 5 seconds long - it took around 50 photos and 25 minutes to make it. Just imagine making a 30 minute cartoon or a whole animated movie! This is just one sample of our first attempts. Can't wait to see what else they come up with!!! |
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How appropriate that the Lego Movie has come out at the same time that Lake Prairie will be offering a Stop Animation Club. Stop animation is where you set up a scene with characters & take a picture. Then move the character or characters a little and take another picture. You repeat this process with little changes and then put it together to make a movie. With very short intervals between photos it appears that the object is moving. You can use anything to make the movie from Legos to clay to cars to McDonalds toys - if you have any extras of these items, please let me know. Using the iPads, we use stop-motion animation to bring figures to life! By using your child's amazing imagination, they will create stop-motion animation movies that not only encourage the development of story-telling, but also provide an opportunity for kids to use movie production tools. The club will take place on Wednesdays from after school until 3:30 in the month of April. Due to limited devices - I will only take 6 students. More details will be sent home next week. I can't wait to finally get this project started!!! Below are a couple of stop animations that I created & one by a student In 2007 I received a Lilly Teacher Creativity grant to travel for 6 weeks; my grant was titled "Through the Reflective Glass: Art & Community. So for my grant I traveled to various communities around the United States and photographed the people, the architecture, and the plant life - I went to Arizona to see the Native Americans, South Carolina to view the Gullah, North Carolina's Outer Banks where it is rustic and pristine, and finally to see the marine life of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. It was a phenomenal experience!!
This past week while attending the Lilly Extending Teacher Creativity Workshop, which is available to grant winners each summer, I learned how to do Stop Motion Animation. It is a great time to learn new things and get ready for the school year. I've been interested in it for awhile, but never have taken the time to learn to do it. Now what is Stop Motion Animation you ask, basically what you do is create a video in which you take individual photographs with small movement changes from one to the next and then put them in a program that when the time is adjusted it looks like the thing is actually moving. Here are two videos that I worked on. There are 65-100 slides in each of the videos. Hope you enjoy and students, in 4th or 5th grade, should be on the look out for a Stop Motion Animation Club being offered later this year. |
Ms. Sayers I graduated with a Bachelors degree in Art & Art Education, with a minor in Art history at Indiana University - Bloomington. Since then I have received an endorsement in Gifted & Talented Education and a Masters in Art Education from IU. Click here to subscribe via email to keep up with what's happening in the art room.
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