Making human caterpillars!

We decided to have another go at animating ourselves today and Mrs Davies helped us to get a little more organised. We got into two lines and the front person led us around in small steps. After each step we took a picture and then put them altogether to make our new movie. We were surprised that our 69 photographs became only 6 seconds of movie when we put it together, we worked out that this means that about 11 pictures makes one second of film.


We've put our new film below for you to enjoy. Next week we are going to try animating characters we have made out of pipe cleaners so do check back to see how they turn out.

Animating ourselves

We have learnt that animations are made up of thousands of pictures that are slightly different to each other. Normally this is done by drawing or on a computer but we discovered today that we can animate ourselves in the same way. By taking small movements between photographs we can make ourselves move in cool ways that we wouldn't be able to do in real life. Mrs Davies showed us a music video by the band Ok Go where they use this technique to create interesting movements and then we had a go ourselves. Below are the Ok Go video and then our attempts. We might ave another go tomorrow to see if we can get even better at it!

(Ok Go - End of Love)

Busy Budgies

Room 8 have two resident budgies, Belle and Sebastian. Here's a little time-lapse video Mrs Davies took to show just what busy budgies they are!