Design Ideas for Animation

I spend a lot of my time getting ideas for animation for the children who come to my clubs. I carry loads of stuff around with me too, so I thought I'd put some ideas here, so that you can see them whenever you want.

Clay Stopmotion

I carry a lot of play-dough with me all the time. Its easy to make (here's a brilliant recipe from imaginationtree.com ) and cheap, though I'm experimenting with getting good colours at the moment. Here are some thins I've found while surfing...

http://afortnightofmustard.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html


http://www.orange-elephant.ru/master_classes/ball_clay/bear

Here's a great list http://pinterest.com/trifffany/clay-for-kids/ including

http://pinterest.com/pin/151222499959473420/



http://pinterest.com/pin/151222499958449334/

Here's a slightly different idea, but simple

https://pinterest.com/pin/480688960197906545/


https://pinterest.com/pin/480688960197906455/


http://wallpaperscraft.com/download/toys_cartoon_clay_kids_49255/1920x1080


http://www.ronitbaras.com/focus-on-the-family/parenting-family/how-to-raise-gifted-children-let-there-be-light/#.UbRbMee9FoA

Other fantastic ideas at http://theimaginationtree.com/2013/01/the-z-of-play-dough-recipes-and.html



http://www.amaco.com/amaco-lesson-plans/lesson-8-clay-animation/


http://www.ehow.com/list_6068630_different-types-modeling-clay.html

Backgrounds

Other Materials

http://pinterest.com/pin/33847434669694993/

Drawn

I recently bought a book from this website http://www.thaneeya.com/ and http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-make-a-pattern.html about colouring mandalas, and used her ideas to plan a lesson.

Her pictures are copyright, but I wanted to give you a flavour of her designs



This page, though, shows step by step how to build up a simple, yet beautiful design, and I hope that one of the children will pick up this idea and use it to animate their own short.

Other resources

How To
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-claymation-stopmotion-video/
http://www.amaco.com/amaco-lesson-plans/lesson-8-clay-animation/