Animation

Basics

Animation is a method in which pictures are manipulated to appear as moving images. Limited animation is a process that does not redraw entire frames but reuses common parts between frames.

MS Paint is a simple graphics editor with a range of uses. You can edit images quickly or create masterpieces with the tools in this app. Once you’re done, you’ll be able to save and share your files in almost any format.

Pivot Animator is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and sprite animations, and save them in GIF format for use on web pages.

WeVideo is an online, cloud-based video editing platform that works in web browsers and on mobile devices. This tool allows users to add audio to their GIFs and turn them into full-fledged movies.

Unit Title: What Moves You?

Summative

Mr. Lane is looking for different ways to review the 3B’s (Be Safe, Be Respectful & Be Responsible) through the Marauder News Network broadcasts. He has requested that you help him out by selecting one of the 3B’s and create an animation that provides an example of what it means in a way that would be helpful to students. He has also requested that you include a title (this will introduce the 3B example you have selected), at least one background, animation of character(s), and dialogue or thought bubbles to convey your understanding of the 3B chosen. The animation you create needs to be long enough to clearly provide an example of the 3B you have chosen. You may add background music as desired to enhance the animation. Mr. Lane would like this completed by 11 February 2024 so he can begin selecting animations for use this year.

Formatives

Notes

Google Drawings - use Drawings to create a color wheel and then embed into your portfolio

MS Paint - use Paint to create a park scene; resize to 1200 x 600 pixels, save when done as a .jpg to your Google Drive, then embed into your portfolio

"Parkour" Animation - use Paint and Pivot to create an obstacle course for your free runner to complete; build off the park scene and focus on learning the basics of Pivot; create a 30 second long animation (360 frames at 12 fps); then embed into your portfolio

"Chores" Animation - use Paint and Pivot to animate your stick-figures to convincingly illustrate a scene of a parent/child interacting over chores; focus is on adding callouts and/or thought bubbles to provide dialogue between parent/child; create a 30 second long animation (360 frames at 12 fps); then embed into your portfolio

"Disney Movie" Animation - use Paint and Pivot to animate your stick-figures to convincingly illustrate a scene of a Disney movie; focus is recreating the scene selected as realistically as possible so that others can recognize your scene selection; create a 30 second long animation (360 frames at 12 fps); then embed into your portfolio

Parkour with Sound Project - use a previous created animation, Parkour, and use WeVideo to add titles, credits and sound to animation. Export as an .mp4 to google Drive and then insert into your portfolio

Practice

Additional Information

Resources

Pivot Stickfigure Library - People from around the world have created stks that can be used to help further develop your animation. Under some circumstances you can use these with your animation (but not usually). Please check with me before you use them. Please know, guns, weapons, etc. will never be approved.

jspaint.app - An online version of MS Paint. You can use this with a Chromebook or a desktop PC. It does not have the same features as the desktop but can be used in a pinch to create backgrounds or sprite images. Save to your Google Drive account to make sure you know where your work went.

Parkour & Freerunning Examples

Using your desktop to create a background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IneayPWIp1Y

Page updated

Report abuse