What is the STEM behind Animation?
What is the STEM behind Animation?
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🧪 Science – How Things Move
🧪 Science – How Things Move
Animators study how people, animals, and objects move in the real world (called physics) to make movement look natural.
For example, when a ball bounces, it squashes and stretches—that’s a physics rule animators use!
💻 Technology – Using Cool Tools
💻 Technology – Using Cool Tools
Animators use computers, software, and graphics tablets to draw and move characters.
Programs like Blender, Toon Boom, or Scratch let them create digital cartoons or 3D models.
🛠️ Engineering – Building Animation Systems
🛠️ Engineering – Building Animation Systems
Engineering helps make animation tools, game engines, or rendering systems that process all the moving parts.
It also helps build rigs (skeletons) that control 3D characters, kind of like a puppet.
🎨 Art – Drawing and Creativity
🎨 Art – Drawing and Creativity
This is the heart of animation! Artists design characters, backgrounds, and scenes.
They use color, shape, expression, and style to tell a story or create emotion.
➕ Mathematics – Timing and Movement
➕ Mathematics – Timing and Movement
Animators use math to calculate frames per second (FPS) and motion paths.
Geometry helps with rotating and scaling characters or objects, especially in 3D animation.
Career Connection: Working as an animator, choose one of the challenges below.
Career Connection: Working as an animator, choose one of the challenges below.
Challenge #1: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an introduction for the morning announcements.
Challenge #1: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an introduction for the morning announcements.
Challenge #2: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an animation teaching others how to do a simple task. (Example: make a PB&J, play checkers, do a cheer, how to dance...) See example here!
Challenge #2: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an animation teaching others how to do a simple task. (Example: make a PB&J, play checkers, do a cheer, how to dance...) See example here!
Challenge #3: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an animation to teach someone about something I learned in school. (Example: the rotation of the planets, how to write a poem, chemical reactions, choose any subject and topic...)
Challenge #3: In the next 5 days, I will use Flip-a-Clip to create an animation to teach someone about something I learned in school. (Example: the rotation of the planets, how to write a poem, chemical reactions, choose any subject and topic...)
Challenge #4: Create an animation about "Robotics in Animation". (TSA theme)
Challenge #4: Create an animation about "Robotics in Animation". (TSA theme)
Want to plan it out on paper first? Print out a planning sheet for your animation on Day 1- click here
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