Animation: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Can you guess why films are called "movies"? Why people are called "actors"? Not only do people move and act in films, but so can drawings! Learn (and try!) how animation makes the inanimate move! Students will read about and watch examples of animation. They will create a flipbook to create a stop-motion animation.  

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.PRO.1

Use identified creative skills to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem-solve in the media arts artistic process.

UP:AE17.MED.PRO.1

Vocabulary

Creativity
  • Productive thinking
  • Divergent thinking
  • Improvisation
Collaborate
  • Active listening
  • Combining ideas
Aesthetics
  • Appealing
  • Artistic taste
Design process
  • Prototype
Stylistic conventions
  • Techniques
  • Devices
  • Effects
Associated Principals
  • Elements of Design
  • Elements of Dance
  • Elements of Music

Essential Questions

EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?

Skills Examples

  • Use productive thinking and divergent thinking to list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a media arts product. Choose one idea to develop based on identified artistic goals and justify the choice. Use improvisation to develop a script/ storyboard for production.
  • In a group, provide constructive criticism for individual media arts products.
  • Collaboratively, apply agreed upon aesthetic criteria to suggest refinements for each product after active listening to each team member's inspiration, goals, and presentation context.
  • Using at least two art forms, outline a plan for a media arts product that serves as a PSA for a school service club, choosing stylistic conventions that support the two art forms and the product's purpose.
  • Exchange copies of media arts products with a classmate. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation, modify and refine a product to reflect personal goals and preferences. Meet and explain choices in modifications.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.AC.5

Connect varied art forms, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions that retain thematic integrity and stylistic continuity.

UP:AE17.MED.AC.5

Vocabulary

Message
  • Thematic Integrity
  • Unity
  • Interactivity
  • Curate a series
Creativity
  • Stylistic Continuity
  • Responsiveness to Failure
  • Resisting Closure

Essential Questions

EU: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
EQ: How are complex media arts experiences constructed?

Skills Examples

  • Create a series of three media arts products connected by theme and style but using varied art forms and techniques to address recent events in a self-selected news category. Submit the series for teacher and peer review.
  • Conceptualize an original idea for a series of three media arts product and hold interviews of classmates to "hire" for needed positions. Complete the project and provide "performance reviews" to your "staff" once the series has been presented to an audience.
  • Create an original media arts series that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques that interact in a unified theme to serve a single purpose and message and meet personal expressive goals.
  • Select, organize, and present a collection of media artworks to educate first graders, fifth graders, and peers about the history of media arts.
  • Attend and evaluate classmates' curations of media artworks. In the spirit of experimentation and growth, implement changes that improve the presentations.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.AC.9

Curate and design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks through a variety of contexts.

UP:AE17.MED.AC.9

Vocabulary

Message
  • Thematic Integrity
  • Unity
  • Interactivity
  • Curate a series
Creativity
  • Stylistic Continuity
  • Responsiveness to Failure
  • Resisting Closure

Essential Questions

EU: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
EQ: How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks? How can presenting or sharing media artworks in a public format help a media artist learn and grow?

Skills Examples

  • Create a series of three media arts products connected by theme and style but using varied art forms and techniques to address recent events in a self-selected news category. Submit the series for teacher and peer review.
  • Conceptualize an original idea for a series of three media arts product and hold interviews of classmates to "hire" for needed positions. Complete the project and provide "performance reviews" to your "staff" once the series has been presented to an audience.
  • Create an original media arts series that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques that interact in a unified theme to serve a single purpose and message and meet personal expressive goals.
  • Select, organize, and present a collection of media artworks to educate first graders, fifth graders, and peers about the history of media arts.
  • Attend and evaluate classmates' curations of media artworks. In the spirit of experimentation and growth, implement changes that improve the presentations.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Elephango

License Type

Custom
https://www.elephango.com/index.cfm/pg/k12learning/lcid/13058/Animation:_What_I…

Custom License Type (URL)

https://elephango.com/terms/

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles

Approved Date

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