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What Is Animation?

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Animation & Storytelling — Lesson 1 of 6. What animation is, how frames and frame rate create the illusion of movement (persistence of vision), and the main types of animation: hand-drawn, stop-motion and keyframe. Pupils get their first real, clickable look at Animation Studio via the guided Bou…

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — 24 Still Pictures
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Animation — What It Is (and What It Is Not)
  5. Persistence of Vision
  6. Quick Check — Persistence of Vision
  7. Frame Rate — How Many Frames Per Second?
  8. Hinge Check — What's Really Happening in an Animation?
  9. Three Types of Animation
  10. Task 1 (guided) — Sort the Clues
  11. Task 2 (semi-guided) — Working Out Frames
  12. Task 3 (independent) — See It for Yourself in Animation Studio
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Part of: Animation: the whole unitEvery resource in the unit in one zip.

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