Photo Updates

The club have been hard at work on their sets and with shooting for their final animations....check it out!

Animators hard at work!

Here are some recent photos of our young animators hard at work with the 'I Can Animate' software. 

There are 4 groups in the club with 4 students in each.  To familiarize the group with the software and to get them used to working as an animating team, I set them the task of animating 2 'blobs' of plastecine.  They were asked to make a short animation of no longer than 1 minute with 12 frames per second, and the story could be anything.  I encouraged students to keep the animations simple at this stage as the main purpose of these animations were really just to learn about the different steps involved.

  They worked in groups to come up with a story, created a storyboard and also made the characters and collected any props they needed (things lying around the art classroom).  They then took turns in each of the different roles - each had a shot being the 'mover' and 'director' for example. 

The club have taken to the software like ducks to water and there has been lots of loud laughter coming from the students as their creations come to life! 

Watch this space for the groups' finished animations over the next few weeks.



Dana, Isobel, Mia and Ea



Sarah, Sondos & Iman




Nick, Patrick & Faris

 


Josh & Ciara





Zoetropes

Here are some very short clips of the students' zoetropes from October 2010 .  We made the zoetropes using yoghurt lids, card and the help of an electric drill to make them spin.  This was a great way of introducing key concepts of animation and were lots of fun to make!

 

The animation club gets on the web!

Hello,

My name is Mrs Nix and I am an Art teacher at the Al Yasmina School in Abu Dhabi.  I run the Animation Club every Tuesday after school for secondary students.  We currently have 15 students who are full of energy and are eager to learn about animation.  Recently we acquired 4 laptops, cameras and the I Can Animate Software which the students have loved using as it is easy to use with immediate results. 
Watch this space for some examples of the club's fabulous stop motion animations!