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Magnetic Fields Animation

zhoeben — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:30:18 +0000

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

This is a good example of how animation can be used to help explain difficult concepts using real-time footage and underlying invisible elements such as magnetic fields.

Doodle your pencil away!

zhoeben — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:17:50 +0000

To The End Of The Pencil And The Edge Of The Page from Green Thing on Vimeo.

A great way to encourage kids to use the whole page in their sketchbook! Some great doodles.

Lennon Speech Animation

zhoeben — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:02:52 +0000

This great animation was recently produced by director Josh Raskin and animator Alex Kurina and uses the original interview recording between a 14 year old and John Lennon in 1969. I particularly like the way it is a continuous animation with few scene cuts, allowing the illustrator to playfully mutate from one scene to another.

A simple project might be to get students to create an animation of a famous speech using a combination of their own drawings and photographic images to illustrate some of the key concepts, eventually exporting as a video podcast. Alternatively, they could just create a simple animation based on the notion of metamorphosis; the transformation from one form into another.

GoAnimate

zhoeben — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:15:40 +0000

GoAnimate, the web 2.0 free animation software site, is excellent and very easy tool to edit with. I had a little play this morning and wasted the last two hours trying to tweak it. Here’s my result… albeit not the funniest of comic animations:

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