Clever Things We Made: 2013

Friday, 5 July 2013

Hambridge University Take 3

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Second week in, and as I say, I'm very impressed by the planning this team are doing. Some really interesting ideas this week, well done.!

I was really pleased with this. The boy who did it had worked very hard during the session, and I like this simple idea.

And this super animation is just great. Done on ABCya animation program.

Sunday, 9 June 2013

First Steps in Stop Motion - Hambridge University Take 2

Most of the animations this week I decided I would wait for the students to put together this week, but there were a few excellent pieces of work already created.

This project took the students a long time to plan and put together. I wasn't sure about the content! but I was pleased to see so much discussion and ideas that were passed between the two students. In the end we were worried that all was lost, but I found their original photos and put it together. Well done.

Because it is a very slow process to draw each frame we only had a few, so I played with different ways of putting the frames together. Faster, and repeated, above, or slower, but once only, below...

I'm really looking forward to putting up the other films they've made

Friday, 24 May 2013

Fantastic Animations

Here are the first 'doodling' animations from our second Hambridge University class:

really...?

And a first try with the camera. Good attempt, though I think a tripod would make it even better...

And then in the after school club this was created! One of the best, I think. Simple, and effective:

and to help remember for hte next session...a play-doh crab. Very clever. I wish I could make things like that.

Kyle's Webpage

Kyle has been working on this for a few weeks - we've come to an agreement, and I'm pleased to put this up...

http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/valentine26.html

This is me...again!!!

Very sad, :(, just can't get this working today. To do with Java, I think, but I need to read up on it. I'll keep trying... Here are the brilliant Scratch games the children have begun developing... Ben's shark attack

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Sunday, 12 May 2013

New animations...

Here's what the wonderful kids at Ashcott have made this week...

It is a truth universally accepted that girls do romance and weddings, boys do fight scenes!

Here's a wedding!

Oh yes, boys do aliens, too!

I love this one. Great idea...

Well done Jacqueline, bit of pixilation:

And a great group effort, girls:

I've tried uploading the scratch projects but it's just not working. I'll take a look at it during the week...

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Starting on Scratch in Ashcott

This week I introduced the animation club to Scratch. They were very skeptical but really quite enjoyed it once they got going. I've uploaded them to my scratch account so you can see them...

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10189338/

New Week, New Challenge

So last week, at Hambridge University, we learnt that animation is made of many separate frames. This week I brought along the cameras and a portable shareware program called videopad. Here's what the clever (and slightly sinister) students produced!

Jess and Leonie may, possibly, have made the first ever movie involving play doh that commits suicide. Though knowing kids, probably not! I think this was Take 1

And here's Take 2

Here's a late entry...

of course, blue-tac map travel

Emily decided she would like to continue using RealWorldPaint to make a longer animation. She's working in a really fine detail. Oh no! Who left that ball in the way? and a quick 'sick' face.

Ben wanted to go travelling with blu tac, though I'm not sure these are both Ben's - you'll have to let me know, Ben

Late entries...just arrived...

Alien invasion...

Strange goings on...

more strange goings on...

New Blue Blob...

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Animation. Doing the Tough Stuff!

Drawing walking or The Walking Cycle

At the Ashcott Animation Club, I decided it would be fun to learn a little about the walk cycle. It's one of the key skills to learn in animation. People learn this at Big School, or even Big Big School - My lovely lot are only in year 5 and 6!

There are some fantastic resources here and here and I used this image, from angryanimator for the children to colour in. The idea was that they would start by colouring these frames, then if they wanted they could draw legs onto a simple body, and then develop from there. I think it was late in the term, and none of them wanted to take it further in this session, but I think they will be impressed with the animation they have produced using this template, and I will definitely try this again!

Here's the template they used:

It was the end of long term, and they were very tired, AND poor Trystan had a broken arm :( Here's the drawings they produced. - I need to work on my photography skills though!

Amazing Animation

Thanks to all the wonderful children at the Ashcott Animation Club.

This is their first term, and we have really whizzed across with so many different types of animation. Remember,
1. Animation takes about 15 pictures per second!!!
2. Each of these was made in less than one hour, and each was a first attempt at each method.

Brilliant work, kids!

Guinnie - Lovely, deceptively simple fireworks, and then a missed Karate kick!

Ethan - Here's Ethan's first drawn gif, and some scary dinosaurs using pivot animation.

Jacqueline - More super fireworks, and this very inventive caterpillar (drawn with an impressive soundtrack hummed/acted out in the background!)

Trystan - Great comedy 'splat' and a simple, but really effective number sequence!

Maisy

Really quirky drawn animation, then a great use of Pivot letters...

Luke

I really love this drawn animation - it has such a great style; it looks like Luke has drawn it using coloured pens. Great. Fun pivot animation, too.

Ben

This may look simple, but Ben worked really hard to find a way to move the car. Well worth the effort!

Louis

Two very fun, and confidently drawn animations. Great work.

Zak

Another bold and bright drawn animation, and I must ask Zak what his link is with Scotland!

Ronnie

Ronnie really likes pivot, and these are both really colourful pieces!

And here are their first every stop motion animations - remember - one second takes about 15 pictures!

I think this is really super, Trystan! Well done.

Brilliant work, Zak

Maisy, Guinnie and Jacqueline worked really hard on this.

We watched this film, and it inspired the girls to make this

I hope to add the last few next week, and here are a few unnamed - I'll get these all arranged next week!

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Animation Workshop Part 1

In our second session we learnt a little about animation - We made a simple flip book so that we understood that animations are made of losts of 'frames' or different pictures that flash quickly in the same place. There can be 15 or more frames in one second of animation - it's a slow process!

Then we used three programs to make animations:

http://www.abcya.com/animate_classic.htm - this is brilliant - up to 40 frames, you can see the previous frame (onion skin) and it saves as a .gif file

http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm - a newer version - up to 100 frames, and lots of pre-made images.

Finally, some students used a free program called Real Word Painter, found here - it really is excellent - I even made a donation! The best thing is that you can create an animation frame by frame, but only need o save it once. It is quite technical, and the students have really found their way around it very well.

And sometimes the hardest thing is to come up with an idea...great work!

Monday, 22 April 2013

This is me

Fantastic work from the Hambridge University students here.

The question ... Who are you?

Answered by the students in pictures and their own words.

The pupils took their own pictures, and recorded the answers to the questions, then edited the HTML code 'shell' to link their words and pictures together. It's tricky work; lots of words that the computer is very fussy about - it has to be done right!

The only changes I've made here were to be able to put the work online. Other than that, it's all their work!

At last I've done it!

Here's Leonie:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos1.html

Here's Jess:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos2.html

Emily:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos3.html

Hey, Bradley,
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos4.html

Tyler:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos5.html

Felix
Sorry, Felix - I'm just putting yours together!

Ben:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos7.html

And last, but not least, Dan!
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/1/12816321/mephotos8.html

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

pictures

candy

death dragon

do not enter

Emily

george

not the freja

Irish

tobster

kyle

barlow

demi

frog

smarties

cat

viking

moo

zoe