Animation workshop 3
This week the animators went through some physical exercises to help connect them with the physicality of animation. Gesture and posture were part of the learning before taking this experience back to the animation of their characters.
We also looked at some mime comedy by 2 Japanese guys called gamarjobat. Worth checking out in YouTube!!
Character Animation Workshop week 2
Some further images from the second week of character animation. The students were given a starting brief of a character waking up, sitting up, standing, stretching, waving and then sitting down again. From then on they have more creative freedom with what their characters will do. Hopefully we will have some video soon. For now enjoy the pictures.
Character animation workshop 1
This week the elements stop motion animators are starting with some character animation using silhouette paper cut outs. Emily Ng our animator in residence came in to lead the workshop and get the students thinking started. First the characters were discussed and sketched then cut out of card. As we progress we will be looking at bringing these characters to life in simple action sequences exploring how posture and gesture co
mmunicate emotion. 
Stop Motion Animation
The stop motion elements students work on individual abstract ink and paper animations for their first stop motion project. We put these together in a quick show real as a whole sequence to extend the piece. Enjoy!!
Star solderer!!
Well done Mia!! Got to grips with soldering like a fully fledged professional! Great stuff!!
Year 8’s doing their creative thing!!
Modelling using the jackstraws and scrafitti idea generating strategies in card provides for some more unusual design ideas. A good opportunity for us to talk about design kits, randomness in the creative process and how abstract design can inspire concrete ideas.
First day for elements animators
First animation lesson and we got to grips with some of the fundamental questions around what we doing in his course. What do we expect? Why did we choose it? What is frame rate and the persistence of vision and what is there relevance to animation? Is animation just making things look like they are moving? We’ve then go on to make our zoetropes and our first very simple animations. The point of this is to try to understand some of the complexities and limitations of frame by frame animation as well as the workload implications of our story decisions.
Year 8 Technology Challenge Day 1
In a challenge of communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, Year 8 Da Vinci team one, were voted the winners on the first of the two Year 8 Technology Challenge Days 10 May 2016.In teams of 15 students worked together to make a marketable product. The brief asked teams to produce a cooked product, promotional and branding materials and a uniform. The teams then appoint a project manager who assigns roles to the group of 15. With teams in different places (food tech, textiles and DT rooms) groups are encouraged to use social media to stay in contact.
The start of the creative problem solving comes from a food brief that the students are presented with prior to the day. Each brief outlines the market and general creative direction the students need to look to – Da Vinci team one were given the Crazee Cupcakes brief which requires them to develop a range of cupcakes around that theme. All the ideas and final products were judged and scored by Principal Chris Binge and Vice Principal Matt Rappel, together with teacher judging as well as each group scoring another. All the points are added up and Da Vinci team one was a clear winner with 178 points.
The top three teams were (1) DaVinci 1, (2) Einstein 2 and (3) Einstein 1.
Mark Roper Head of Technology said: “The team worked really well to produce a solid range of coherent outcomes in a very short space of time. THey were well prepared and came to the day already knowing what they intended to do as they had researched well. At the end of the day the project managers feedback on what went well and areas they need to improve on. They learnt a lot in the day beyond technical skills and have a lot of fun in the process of learning.”
Mr R’s Designer of the Week
A late entry for this weeks designer of the week which should have been done for last week. Anyway better late than never and I want to highlight Tiffany’s work this week. Tiffany has in fact got a lot of talents as a designer. An incredible eye for detail being one of them. Here she admirably demonstrates this in the design of her lamp. She has developed a beautifully detailed pattern that she took into illustrator to be laser cut. I am really excited to see how this turns out, especially when it lights up!!
Some great Album art coming on in year 8
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Post to share this work by Lorenzo in 8w. It just one example of some excellent photoshop work coming out of the years 8’s at the moment. I really like what Lorenzo has developed in terms of the text typography for his work and that is one-off the reasons to feature it here. Next week will be the final week of this project so more of these outcomes will follow.
