Kevin's Meandering Mind » animation http://dogtrax.edublogs.org If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:43:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Rise of the Stick People http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/the-rise-of-the-stick-people/ http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/the-rise-of-the-stick-people/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:33:42 +0000 dogtrax http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/?p=816 More >]]>

Today is the last day of the year for my sixth graders — which makes me both happy and sad (you teachers know what I am talking about). For the past three days, the kids have been working on the laptops for the last time, using Pivot Stickman Animation to create little animated movies.

I mostly let them have fun with it and showed them the basics of Pivot, and then some lessons on MovieMaker for those who were not part of my homeroom class (which worked on Claymation movies), and also Super Dooper Music Looper. They loved Pivot and they loved Music Looper, and some were able to do all three programs and created tiny movies.

I gathered the ones I could collect here for this little collection:

The best part for me? The credits one of the students put (on the last flick) that thanks me for helping her improve as a writer this year. Yeah.

Peace (in sticky people),
Kevin

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Wow

This video from YouTube is exactly what I have been looking for as an introduction to my students about stop-motion animation. I love the world of viral videos!

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZuUGO898_GU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

Peace (in frame by frame by frame),

Kevin

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