A few days ago, I wrote about our adventures in stop-motion animation and bemoaned the fact that we just didn't have an app for the iPads that let us do everything we wanted to do all in one place. Well, we found that app. It's called Stop Motion Studio, and we're having so, so, so much fun with it.
First, I made a very, very quick animation of someone drawing a picture:
Then, the afterschoolers spent some time making their own movies. At first, they didn't completely get the idea, and they just took a ton of pictures that then got mashed together.
After that, though, they started to get the hang of it. One important lesson that I learned? Afterschoolers can get impatient, and it really, really bugs them then they can't just move around a lot and have the animation just automatically work.
One way of animating that appealed to the ways that the kids wanted to work was to have the youth work on an activity while someone photographed it. The result looked a lot like super-fast filming:
And then there were the youth who just wanted to dance!
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