In my seventeen years of teaching sixth grade, I can honestly say it's rare to see every student engaged, enjoying a lesson, and learning something. That's why I'm so excited about the Epic Full-Length Stop Animator Project.
The goal of our project is to create a 90-180 second stop animation video. A few weeks ago, we did a short video project, and the kids enjoyed it. While the video-making process was fun, the final product left me wondering if we could do better. I enlisted the help of a friend of mine who is an animation guru (media professor at a local university) and got started on creating a great project. You can see our instructions here.
Today was the second day of the project, and the kids were merely planning. They were working on storyboards, drawing on the white board, trying new camera angles, and figuring things out. It was so cool to just look out over the class and see every student working, interacting, and...enjoying it. The plans are diverse: clay, Legos, ants in love eating watermelon, construction paper sandwiches, poodles in Paris, and an action figure-eating toy.
Next week, they will do their actual filming, but I had to share this one short practice video of the creation of Clay Man.
This is going to be cool!
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