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Flip Animation and Web 2.0 Animation. By Jon Morris Technology Educator. Take a Moment and load up Pivot. Try to do this now. As the presentation will take a few minutes and it would be nice to have this ready to go. If you do not have a windows system, consider downloading Stykz for Macs.
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Flip Animationand Web 2.0 Animation By Jon Morris Technology Educator
Take a Moment and load up Pivot • Try to do this now. As the presentation will take a few minutes and it would be nice to have this ready to go. If you do not have a windows system, consider downloading Stykz for Macs
Simple Story, Simple Figures, Simple Background, Simple Software • Who has worked with animations?
Simple Story Think of a childhood story or poem that is close to your heart.
Simple Backgrounds • Use basic colors to demonstrate day, night, forest, water. • Keep your scene in one place. • Create a background with two primary colors. One for ground and one for sky.
Simple Figures and Objects • Limit the number of figures. • Use one or two objects, if necessary.
Simple Dialogue • Avoid complex dialogue. • Use text if you need it. • Let the pictures tell the story.
What do you use? • Paint programs that you use? • MovieMaker Type Programs that you use? • Presentation Programs that you use?
Backgrounds • Paint • Sumopaint • Art Rage • Paint.net • Google Documents Drawing
Figures and Objects • JPEGS with a white background • GIFs • Clip Art
Animation Software • PowerPoint: Presentation • Smartboard: Presentation Software • Movie Maker Live or Movie Maker • Goanimate for Education: Animation Software • Blabberize: Head Shot Animation • Pivot: Stick figure Animation • Google Documents Presentation
Goanimate for Education • Go Animate for Education: Free for 6 months, but limited. • 5th Grades on up. • The free program does not allow students to create characters. • This program has a learning curve, but it is not hard to use. • No download, totally Web.20 Based
Goanimate for Education • Here is an Example • http://goanimate4schools.com/school/stjohnsbury • http://goanimate4schools.com/movie/0RdeyovyoVjQ/1
Blabberize.com • Take a picture and upload it to Blabberize. • Create a teacher account and have students save their work on one account. • Problems do exist • persevere
Power Point Animation • Open up a Power Point. • Find or create a back ground. • Find or create object (figure in clip art) • Page One, place background and objects • Page Two, modify figure rotate and move. • Repeat • Create Folder • Save as: JPEG format Images Into Folder. Select All Images.
Movie Maker Please Perform in Order • Open Movie Maker Live (Movie Maker Requires you change duration/transitions first). • Import Pictures, Select All • Adjust Duration Times to .15 or.25 • Press play to view speed. Adjust to taste. • Add Title and Credits.
Mac’s • IMOVIE: Simply change transition or duration times for the slides. • Paintbrush for Macs • Keynote for Presentation Software
Google Apps for Education • Google Apps can also be used to create these types of presentations. • Google Presentation • Google Drawing • Watch this Google Slam
Simple Story Stories have a beginning, middle, and end. So create a simple idea: Billy Goats Gruff (Part 1) • Beginning: Goat want to cross bridge. • Middle: Troll stops goat on bridge. • End: Troll throws goat into water.
Pivot • http://pbone.it-mate.co.uk/pivot.htm • Stykz for MAC’s ( I have not used this program)
Create Your Background Use your favorite paint program.
Open Pivot • File Load background. • Add figure or create your own figure. • Click next frame. • Modify figure. • Click next frame.
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