Student made Anime on @redsoftware Animation creator #edapp #mlearning #artsed #lessonplan

 

My 6th grade students studied a unit on Japan so I figured they could collaborate to create a piece of Japanese inspired animation (Anime) by using @redsoftware 's app: Animation Creator

In the past, I have done Manga work with my students, where they study the art of that time period while they learn about it in their sixth grade Social Studies class.

I wanted my students to utilize the Animation Creator app before they left me for the year, as I had some great examples in the past when my students made Greek Myth animations

If you would like to do something along this line, or a lesson on Anime, you can check out this Prezi that is a halfway conversion from my original Powerpoint with some elements copied from Lori Ingham's Prezi 

Copy of Anime on Prezi

You can also read about a recent Horry Independent article on my other students and how their use of IPods help them learn about their art content.

 

Overall though, I must say that I was a little disappointed with the school's IPods and the app itself. Not sure if it was a the school's wireless or the IPod's software, or a combination of both. SO I apologize to my 6th graders that not ALL of your animations made it into the film as I had a lot of issues of taking all thirty IPods home and uploaded them one at a time to YouTube .

6th grade student gallery of @morriscooke Photo Puppet movies on Ancient Egypt & Renaissance artists #artsed #mlearning #edtech #edapp

6th grade BWMS art students had to pick one Renaissanceartist from a selected list. Alternatively, students could tell me whatever they learned about Ancient Egypt in their Social Studies class and they could make a movie about one topic they learned in there. They then had to type up a biography paragraph on Edmodo prior to receiving their IPod.

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Afterwards, students had to log into their Edmodo site, where I posted a link of student photos. I took a photo of the students in front of green paper to simulate a green screen effect. Unfortunately, the Photo Puppet Go app doesn't have the "remove green" effect that my IPad app has.

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Once students downloaded their picture from Edmodo, they then had to import it as a puppet in the Photo Puppet Go app

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The next step, students had to download one piece of art from their artist and then upload it as a  background in the Photo Puppet app

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Finally, students combined their puppet and the background into a scene. Within the scene, they would animate their puppet while recording their voice which demonstrated their research on the artist.

When the film was done, a student could Tweet about it, upload it ot their YouTube account or save it to the camera roll.

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6-1 Movies

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6-2 Movies

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In A World Trailers on Age of Exploration / Renaissance #edtech

8th and 7th grade students utilized the mobile IPod app "In a World" to create a movie trailer that showed off the artwork they were currently learning in Social Studies. The 8th graders just wrapped up a unit on Native Americans, so they primarily featured Cherokee artwork. The 7th graders were studying the Age of Exploration, which was also featured some moments during the Renaissance.

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How to create an atmospheric perspective painting using the free DrawCast app on your Apple device

It was really nice to have some time to sit back and relax to paint. I haven't really done this before (posting via email to posterous)so bare with me and feel free to check out this post often as I post more pictures and turn this more into a tutorial

Step 1:I was really inspired by the overall amount of nature around me on the back porch. I framed my shot of the trees to decide how strong would the composition be.

Step 2 MAKE THE BACKGROUND:

By using the free Drawcast app, (which you can check out here) you can make an excellent painting. There are a variety of free drawing apps for the IPad/Iphone, I really like Drawcast due to drawing on layers, variety of brush sizes and being able to adjust the transparency of color or layer and you can instantly post your art to Facebook.

You are going to want to create a background that has a watercolor wash effect to it, and we will then gradually add layers to properly show Atmospheric Perspective.

This is a picture that we took while in Asheville. Notice that the colors at the bottom are nice and dark, and they get gradually lighter and more blue the further away from us. Just remember DARKER=CLOSER,  LIGHTER=FURTHER SO what I did to create the illusion of atmospheric perspective, was by creating a graded wash with my palette and stylus.

A graded wash is used in watercolor painting to help show depth or value. I created a "wash" by clicking on the color wheel icon, and adjusting the size of my brush to 100 and the intensity/translucence to 100. You can also use a dark shade of a blue for the bottom, but as you start to fill the canvas and you make back and forth strokes, you should gradually lower the intensity/translucence. Basically, by the time you reach the top of your canvas, you should have a light shade of blue. And if you want to make a color darker, just go back over it with your stylus.

You can also add a few random bushes here and there to break up the open area. Once your background is completed, click on the gear icon in the upper left hand corner. Select "save to photo library" so that you can utilize this saved picture for later.

STEP THREE: MAKE THE MIDGROUND

Create a new piece of art in the app. Make sure you click on the icon in the upper right hand corner fo the screen and then select Midground.

I primarilly made the trees on my midground. On my image above, it is shown with my background. Once you complete this drawing, you can create a special added effect by clicking on your "midground icon" and then adjust the intensity/translucence of that layer as well.

STEP FOUR: COMBINE MIDGROUND AND BACKGROUND -

If you look at the image above, I combined the two layers together. To get this going, click on your layer icon in the upper right hand corner and select "set new background"

This will take you to another screen to select your background. Choose the option "photo from my Photo Library"

Open up your Photo Library and select the background picture that you created back in Step 2 (you can also use another photo for a more realistic background. Finally, click "Done" on your Layers window, and the two images are now together.

STEP FIVE: CREATE YOUR FOREGROUND

You can see from the image above that I have already drawn on the foreground layer so that it was primarily the leaves/greenery of my composition.

To do this, click on the layer icon in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Then select "draw on foreground."

The foreground is the closest thing to you, so when you color it, make sure you make your colors fairly dark, at least they should be darker than the midground and background. You can accomplish this by adjusting the transparency of the layers and the colors that you paint with.

STEP SIX: FINALIZE AND PUBLISH

If you look at the above picture, this is my completed work with all three layers and I have signed it.

After completing your foreground, double check to make sure that all of your layers, colors, opacity, etc. is all set.

You can click on the gear in the upper left hand corner to share the work that you have completed whether email, saved to your device or right to your Facebook page.

You can also go into the layer window and select "Tools" and you then have the option to merge all of the layers into a lattened image. ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ARE FOR SURE YOU LIKE YOUR WORK AS YOU CAN NOT UNDO IT.

Best of luck and can't wait to see what you make

  

 

Fluid FX edited pics Montage and Student Samples

Here is a collection of the work that my students did utilizing the Ipod's Fluid FX app. Students demonstrated exaggeration or distortion on their work to contrast their traditional grid drawing portrait.

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