#NAEA2020 - Animation in Art
Do you ever like a piece of art and an artist and want to teach it, but you're not quite sure how it'll go with your students? Did you try it the traditional way and did it fail miserably? You loved the art and the artist, but think you could do it if you approached it a different way. Try technology? What? Yes.
I love the DoInk App and it's opened up a lot of creative doors for my students. They've loved using it and have done a lot of reallly awesome work with it. Look below and see my process and what I've done and what they've done.
Henri Matisse's Blue Nude Doink Animation
I love the organic shape of Matisse's Blue Nudes and how some the paintings infer movement. I went to Matisse's The Swimming Pool exhibit and thought it was awesome. I teach elementary studio art and tried doing this. The kids painted white paper blue with acrylic paint and cut out the body shapes when it dried. We piecemailed it together on a piece of white paper and to be honest it was a mess and didn't achieve the look I was hoping for. It was blocky. It wasn't proportional. It didn't show movement.
The kids were frustrated. I was frustrated. I thought Matisse's paper cut outs were awesome, but how do they translate into a lesson. Well, later that year, I went to the NAEA (National Art Education Association) in Fort Worth, Texas and sat in on a session with Tricia Fuglestad @FugleFun. She was doing awesome things with animation using the DoInk Animation app. I loved it and thought that was the ticket.
I've found a few people who had posted Matisse animations I've found on YouTube.
Doink: Animation and Drawing is a fantastic option for creating animation and giving your projects and presentations that extra zing. An animation is a sequence of images, displayed one after another. Usually, each image in the sequence looks similar to the one that came before t the one that came before it - similar, but not exactly the same. Each image shows the scene at a slightly different point in time. By making small changes from one image to the next, the illusion of motion is created for the viewer.
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Doink is great because it gives you two options to create animation:
Drawing Mode Animations
DRAWING EDITOR The Drawing Editor is where you create individual drawings, or animated sequences made up of multiple drawings, like a flip book. In fact, you can use the Drawing Editor to create an entire animation, by creating each image in the sequence, one at a time.
Drawing animations involve drawing one drawing on a frame after another, slightly changing each one to infer movement. If you think of Shrek, Ogres and Drawing Mode animations are like onions. They have layers. Or in this case, you will draw on an onion skin. In tradition cartooning, individual frames of a movie were draw on thin onionskin paper over a light source. I used to have the kids put paper on top of a drawing and then put it on a window, asking them to change the drawing just a little bit each time. In the DoInk animation app, this effect is achieved by making each frame a frames slightly translucent and projecting them on top of one another.
When the frames are compressed together, the form a video. A fluid animation runs anywhere between 12 frames/24 frames per second.
When the frames are compressed together, the form a video. A fluid animation runs anywhere between 12 frames/24 frames per second.