DAY TWO - CLAY ANIMATION

It was great that you experimented in order to learn from your mistakes, and from the mistakes your other classmates made. We are a team!

Today we worked on three clay animations:
1. Make a ball of clay morph into a snake and slither off of the page.
2. Make a ball of clay morph into a car and drive off of the page.
3. Make a ball of clay morph into different shapes.

Here are some great examples of morphing clay!





When we screened your animations we learned how to:

CRITIQUE
Identify the choices that the animators made and discuss what you liked or learned from those decisions.
Here are some things we need to think about and talk to each other about in order to make our animations the best that they can be!

Color Contrast - The colors of the shapes against the color of the background.
Could you see the shapes clearly? Why or why not?

Movement - Was the movement of the shapes or characters choppy or smooth?
What makes this happen?

Personal Opinion - What was the funniest part? What was your favorite part?
Did the animators make the impossible possible?

We also learned about DEADLINES, how to make sure that we finish everything by a certain date, in our case our SCREENING of all of our animations on Friday and our long term animation project.

Long-term animation project : You will all, within your groups, make a three to five minute collaborative animation with sound, backgrounds, characters and a story. You will use your wild imaginations to come up with your own characters and cool backgrounds made entirely of paper.