Final Greek Myth Animation Creator works by 6-2 Fall '12

Another year of using the awesome Animation Creator HD app with the students as they design Greek Myths into an animated form.

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 Jaden does a great job for progressive movement and telling a story, too bad he runs out of time to add SNDFX

This year is the first time the kids are using the iPads with the app, so they have a larger canvas and a bit more bells and whistles such as adding sound effects and narration.

(Check out the previous Greek Myth Animation post to get caught up)

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 Kristina does a nice job including photos and telling a story about anti-bullying

I got some great resources such as off of Discovery Education for their Greek Myth writing, and works of animation that are already based on Greek Myths. The students then had to write a story influenced by a Greek myth that solves a current societal or environmental problem.

 

Check out some of the previous work that I did with Animation 

Or my previous students that made Japanese Anime w/ Animation Creator

 

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Marlo studied my animation book to get a walk cycle down pat

Some of the students did an amazing job with the dedication to this project, as we must have spent about a total of over three weeks on it - from conception to completion. 

Jorge

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I had each one of them save their videos to the Camera Roll on the iPad and then simultaneously post it to their eportfolio on Kidblog, but also post it to Edmodo so that I could download it from there and blog it here - which would then autopost to YouTube so that I could make a playlist.

Check out what the other class did with their animations!

Timmy's

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Vanessa

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Dan

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 Jaleaha

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Dylan

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Hanna

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Alex

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Johnny

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Ariella

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Phoebe

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Noah 

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Shawn

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Aliyah

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Holden

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Michael

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Lee

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Elvis

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Pointillism works 8th grade'12

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My 8th graders recently got done doing a Pointillism project. I at first introduced them to this concept of art and science through Georges Seurat paintings and this awesome Khan Academy video

Post-Impressionism Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884: Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884, 1884-86, oil on canvas, 81-3/4 x 121-1/4 inches / 207.5 x 308.1 cm (The Art Institute of Chicago). In the Google Art project: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/artwo...

After the students got to know a little something about the art style and Impressionism, I had them research a piece of art from that time period and re-create it in a Contour Drawing style

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After they developed a good outline, they started to fill in those shapes in a Pointillism style. By repeatedly tapping with the tip of their marker and/or crayon, they could blend colors together. What I also enjoyed with this was the fact that they had to frequently step away from their work to see how it would look like 10-15 feet away

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