Below are snapshots of my PowerPoint presentation on the 12 Principles of Animation. Click on the images to enlarge.
High school lesson: (9-12th grade) Flip BooksLesson Topic and Teaching Context:
In this lesson, students will learn about the 12 principles of animation. The teacher will explain the history of flip books, show an example of a flip book animation, and explain the flip book project. Overarching Understandings Students will understand that a simple word can become a springboard to many ideas. Students will understand how to express a word and its meaning using multiple visual images in an animation setting. Essential Questions How can we express or define a word without using text? How can words be expressed visually? National Standards NAEA.VA.9-12.1 CONTENT STANDARD: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Illinois Standards IL.26 GOAL: Through creating and performing, understand how works of art are produced. IL.26.A STANDARD: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts. Knowledge Students will know the Twelve Principles of Animation. Students will know that flipbooks are a primitive form of animation. Students will know that a word can stem up multiple ideas. Skills Students will be able to repurpose old books into new books. Students will be able to create animations working with frames and sequencing. Students will be able to develop multiple concepts and then be able to synthesis and only choose one idea for development. Assessment Tasks A. Pre-requisite/prior knowledge Students should have had some experience in knowing how to draw figures and objects. The project before this lesson, the teacher had the students copy several animation characters and had them create a morphed image of all the animation characters together. In the student's sketchbooks, it showed they also worked on figure drawing. They should also have experience using scissors, Xacto knife, and glue. B. Formative Assessment In the formative assessment the teacher will ask the class if someone can explain what's an animation and how is it developed? The teacher will also ask the class if they are familiar with flipbooks and see if anyone made their own. C. Summative Assessment After the students complete their project, the teacher will ask the students to explain the meaning of an animation. Students will identify which of the 12 animation principles did they use in their flipbooks. Materials Old books, recycled paper, used notebooks, magazines. Pencil, eraser, black markers, glue, Xacto knives, cardboard, hole punch, and string. Reference Books: Dictionaries, animation books, and bookbinding books. Elements of Art/Principles of Design laminated posters. Technology PowerPoint presentation describing the Twelve Principles of Animation. Plans for teacher input in the form of explanations and modeling 1st day: The teacher will explain that in art there are the elements of art and principles of design (hold up the desk references sheet) and in animation there are 12 principles in animation. The teacher will show a PowerPoint presentation on the 12 principles of animation and briefly go into each principle. Then the teacher will discuss the flip book project. Students should think of one word and develop at least 4 stories for that word. 2nd day: Then the student and teacher will discuss which two stories are the best to animate and the student will develop two quickly sketched storyboards. Each storyboard will have 16 frames. 3rd day: The teacher will show two ways of developing the animation which can be working from the last frame or starting from the first frame. The animation should be between 40-60 frames. Timing is 24 frames per second. 4th/5th day: Students will continue to draw their animations in the flipbooks. 6th day: Finished students have the option of adding color to their flipbooks. The teacher will demonstrate how to record the animation using a flip camera. After students' flipbooks are completed, students will be paired and will use the flip camera to film their animations. |
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Explosion
Evolution of Man
Bomb
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