Animation
What will you need?
You will need access to Powerpoint or Keynote app (iPad) - Tasks 1 and 2
The Wicks Editor website - Task 3
The Piskel App website - Task 4
What will you learn?
The basics of stop motion animation and how multiple frames need to be captured.
Creating, duplicating and ordering slides in Powerpoint/Keynote.
Adding images to slides and editing them.
Use transition effects to create animations.
Animate individual elements of graphics between different frames.
To create animate pixel graphics with layers and save them as GIF files.
What will you need?
You will need access to Powerpoint or Keynote app (iPad) - Tasks 1 and 2
The Wicks Editor website - Task 3
The Piskel App website - Task 4
What will you learn?
The basics of stop motion animation and how multiple frames need to be captured.
Creating, duplicating and ordering slides in Powerpoint/Keynote.
Adding images to slides and editing them.
Use transition effects to create animations.
Animate individual elements of graphics between different frames.
To create animate pixel graphics with layers and save them as GIF files.
1. Create Stop-motion animation in PowerPoint or Keynote
Watch the videos below which guides you through creating a slides in PowerPoint or Keynote and then duplicating the slide and moving the objects slightly. The slides will represent frames of your animation.
Watch the videos below which guides you through creating a slides in PowerPoint or Keynote and then duplicating the slide and moving the objects slightly. The slides will represent frames of your animation.
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Powerpoint
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Keynote (iPad)
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How could you improve your animation? More moving objects?
Exporting slides as video?
Both PowerPoint and Keynote allow you to export your slides as a video to your computer or iPad.
In Powerpoint choose File>Export. The choose file format MP4.
In Keynote on iPad, choose the … in top right corner, then Export>Movie. You can choose the space between each slide in seconds.
Exporting slides as video?
Both PowerPoint and Keynote allow you to export your slides as a video to your computer or iPad.
In Powerpoint choose File>Export. The choose file format MP4.
In Keynote on iPad, choose the … in top right corner, then Export>Movie. You can choose the space between each slide in seconds.
2. Use Magic Move in Keynote or Morph Transitions in PowerPoint to create animation.
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Powerpoint
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Keynote (iPad)
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How could you improve your animation? More moving objects?
Exporting slides as video?
Both PowerPoint and Keynote allow you to export your slides as a video to your computer or iPad.
In Powerpoint choose File>Export. The choose file format MP4.
In Keynote on iPad, choose the … in top right corner, then Export>Movie. You can choose the space between each slide in seconds.
Exporting slides as video?
Both PowerPoint and Keynote allow you to export your slides as a video to your computer or iPad.
In Powerpoint choose File>Export. The choose file format MP4.
In Keynote on iPad, choose the … in top right corner, then Export>Movie. You can choose the space between each slide in seconds.
3. Animate individual parts of pictures
For the activities below you will need access to the Wick Editor website (works best on Chrome browser, particularly on iPad).
1. Draw a stick illustration
Use the different tools down left hand side, such as lines and circles, to draw a stick person. The example above uses a stick person holding a ball. Stick people work well because we can animate different parts. |
2. Clone the frames
Use the Clone tool by right clicking on frame at the top. Move individual elements for each frame. You do not have to do small moves, just where you want each object (e.g ball to go). Similar to magic move and morph tools in activities above. Could you animate the ball going through the hoop? |
3. Export your project
You can save your animation to your computer as a video, wick editor project or a GIF by clicking on File. |
4. Create animated GIF files using moving pixels
Pixels are the tiny squares of colour/light that you see on your computer and tv screens. Use the videos and tasks below to help you make an animate GIF (short low quality video) using the Piskel App website
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1. Create pixel graphics
Use the different tools down left hand side to create a graphic made out of pixels. For this example, we have created a fish. Use the video to help but experiment with the different tools. Tip: Click the keyboard icon in the bottom left hand corner to find the keyboard shortcuts such as undo. |
2. Clone the frames
Copy the frames and use the move icon (hand) to create an animation. You will notice in the video that we have used the Flip icon in the Transform section to make the fish face the other way to make it swim back. You will notice in the top right hand corner it shows a preview of your animation . |
3. Add backgrounds and export
Add layers to your project to have backgrounds then use the transform section to apply the layer to all frames. Could you use the layers to add more fish/objects or have bubbles moving upwards? Once finished, use the picture icon on right hand side to export your animation as a GIF file. |
