Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Animation

Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Animation — page 1
TIME TO MAKE Animate anything literally To animate something is to bring it to life Makers can bring nearly anything to life from drawn images and photographs to clay sculptures and toys Animation is about experimentation and invention All you need is imagination and a willingness to try new things Read on and feel inspired to start your first animation project ILLUSION Animators create thousands of pictures known as frames that seem to move when shown in order very quickly The high speed at which the images are shown tricks the human eye into seeing the pictures move This is an optical illusion ANIMATION ALL AROUND From advertising to movies animation is all around us The art of animation is used to entertain educate and inform And it is great fun to createl For example computer and video games use animation techniques to create characters Some of today's most popular movies such as Inside Out and Frozen are animated There are also animations on the Internet that help to clearly explain difficult school subjects or how to fix things Each of these images show a horse jumping and each is slightly different If they were viewed individually one after another the result would be a moving