Learning how to draw means learning to see. A good art lesson teaches us not only to create but to look at, think about and understand our world through art.
Print out this worksheet. Cut out all the strips of paper. Tape them together to form two long strips of paper. Cut out all the gray parts of the paper and save all the white parts.
Congratulations! You now have all the props you need to create a replacement animation. To learn more about replacement animation click here.
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If you have time to get a little more fancy, print out the arms and shirt. Add a cool design to the T-shirt. Add interesting details and tattoos to the arms. Color the face and hair. Better yet, make up your own replacement animation.
Here is a replacement animation I made a few weeks ago at my mom's house. I was bored so I started doodling and cutting. Then I took photographs of my work with my phone and animated them using an app called 'Animation Creator'
Please email me and I will be happy to give the artist credit and post the link to his or her website.
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If you are in one of my art classes this semester, please print out and complete the following storyboard worksheet. You will be required to submit a completed storyboard before you will be allowed to use the IPads.
This seventh grade girl explains that the bully in her picture is stepping on the victim's head while his little sister cries for help. The victim, a boy, has been taught to never hit a girl. He does not know what to do.
This seventh grade boy explains that the correct thing to do when you are being bullied is to leave and tell an adult.
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Students deliberately left out the eyes, eyebrows and mouths from their pictures. The original plan was to use replacement animation to create our short public service movies on bullying.
I ended up using an app on my phone called 'Turbo Scan' to take a black and white digital photograph of this pencil drawing. The student did not have time to outline his picture but Turbo Scan transformed his artwork into a white document with black lines.
We were then able to download the photo from this blog to the Ipad he was using in my classroom. He ultimately opted not to use replacement animation. Instead he drew directly on his picture using the pencil tool in 'animation creator'. He was able duplicate his images multiple times, erase and add details to create this 9 second public service message.
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One of the ways artists learn from each other is by copying.It's okay to copy from the artist's who came before you as long as you use their ideas in a new way.
If you would like to see how universal themes exist in cartooning across historical eras and cultures, visit the cartoon library and museum at Ohio State University, by clicking here, and look through their data base. If you are studying US history, you may be interested in using the data base to look up the political cartoons of Thomas Nast (1840-1902),
Honore Daumier(1808-1879 ) was a French political cartoonist who lived close to the same time as Thomas Nast. Click here to see his artwork.
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This cartoon shows a Syrian government official drawing a fake smile on the face of a beaten and injured anti-government protester. It shows how theoppressive Syrian government is attempting to silence the voice of the people who want freedom and democracy.
Click here to find out about how Ali Ferzat was beaten for speaking up against injustice. Ali Ferzat continues to draw his cartoons to this day, but after his beating he was forced to leave his native country. He continues to protest the Syrian government's injustices from London. Thomas Nast, Honore Daumier and Ali Ferzat are famous, not only because they are talented artists, but because their artwork makes people think about injustices in society; Injustices people would otherwise have just accepted.
Hey U.G.L.Y. (UniqueGifted Lovable You) is an organization for teens dedicated to eliminating bullying. Currently they are accepting entries for a video contest, an essay contest and an acronym contest. Click here to find out how you can get involved.
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So far the only type of animation we have discussed is replacement animation. Here are a few other types of animation my students are experimenting with:
My art club students are just putting the finishing touches on their work, as they prepare to use the IPads next week to create stop motion animations:
Here is her drawing with all of her characters removed. The background of a stop motion animation remains still throughout the movie. Only the characters move.
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Here are a few cut outs of her characters. These are, of course, digital photographs. Her original artwork remains untouched. As a matter of fact, she is still in the process of coloring it with colored pencil.
Animating all the characters and making the pictures tell a story would take many hours. Here is a simplified one minute video animating just a few of the characters from this student's artwork.
In the stop motion animation below, a sixth grade student built a three dimensional set in a cardboard box and created a fish with Crayola Model magic. She also drew and cut out some under water characters, using oil pastels. After photographing each frame she moves the characters just a little bit. Since she made this animation with an IPad, she was unable to use a tripod. Instead, she made sure to line up the corner of her camera frame with the corner of her diorama each time she took a picture. She then had to load the frames one at a time into 'Animation Creator'.
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If you are interested in animation and the history of moving images, the best artist to start your Journey of discovery is the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Click here to explore his pioneering work and inventions.
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO USE ANIMATION CREATOR INVOLVES JUST DRAWING YOUR CARTOON ON THE IPAD SCREEN WITH YOUR FINGER, DUPLICATING THE FRAME AND MODIFYING IT.YOU NEED TO CONTINUE TO DUPLICATE AND MODIFY EACH SLIDE UNTIL THE SERIES OF PICTURES YOU CREATE TELLS A STORY IN MOVING IMAGES.PRINT OUT THESE HELPFUL INSTRUCTIONSBEFORE YOU BEGIN.
In the picture above I clicked on tools and selected the icon of the mountains and sun from the drop down menu. This allowed me to add a picture I had on my camera roll. The photograph just happens to be one of a running horse by Eadweard Muybridge. But you can take pictures of your friends instead. Better yet, have your friends roll play a simple story and take multiple photographs as they act out their parts. You could have a friend make funny faces for the camera or take photographs of two friends arm wrestling.
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Next, I added another frame by clicking the + sign over the word 'Add'. I then chose the pencil tool to trace the horse and rider from frame 1. When you are done adding a frame in front of each photo and tracing each of them, go back and delete all the original photographs so that all that is left of your animation are the line drawings. Many cartoons and advertisements are created this way.Once you have tried rotoscoping, you will start to recognize the effect when you see it on television. The animation below, created by a 7th grade student of mine, is an example of rotoscoping.
The animations above were made in one or two45 minute class periods, mostly by 5th and 6th grade students, using IPads and the app 'Animation Creator HD '. The movie is posted in two different formats. The YouTube version will play on mobile devices. The QuickTime version should work where YouTube is blocked by a security firewall.
We were able to solve the shaky camera issues, when we repeated this project again in 2014, by creating make shift tripods using inexpensive wire modular shelves
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Click on the link below to read my review of the iPad App Animation Creator HD in the Spring 2014 issue of Scholastic Administrator Magazine:Learn to Draw Cartoons is a series of articles based on the Famous Artist Cartoon Course book, now in public domain. This lesson artists are: Rube Goldberg, Milton Caniff, Al Capp , Harry Haenigsen Willard Mullin, Gurney Williams , Dick Cavalli , Whitney Darrow, Jr. Virgil Partch, Barney Tobey. Check out the other Lessons on here. When you meet a friend the first thing you look at is his face. You say, “You look fine” or “You look sick” or “You look sad” or “You look happy.” You recognize Joe or Bill or Mary by the eyes or nose or ears or hair. The good Lord is an expert at putting people together so you can identify them easily. Each of us has different features – even twins are not really identical – and, in addition, each of us has a definite and individual personality. As an observer and recorder of
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