Activity Sheets
These fun and simple activities are designed to help students understand how animation works and to apply the theories in practical projects.
Download any or all of our twelve animation activity sheets or download all 12 in as a zip file.
They are in PDF format to make printing out easy.
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To understand how motion can be captured frame or picture by picture to create a sequence. Children become the animated characters in this activity
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Understand how to construct an early Victorian optical toy and produce moving images using the device.
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Understand how to produce a storyboard.
How different shots are used to create a film.
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Understand how to produce a digital storyboard.
How different shots are used to tell a story and create a film.
How actors can convey meaning through gesture and expression.
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To understand how to create clay models and produce a photostory using a stills camera.
- Download Activity Sheet 5 (PDF 52kb)
- View a video tutorial about Clay Models
- View a video tutorial about Model Animation
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To understand how to create an original character.
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Understand how to construct an early Victorian optical toy and produce moving images using the device.
learning objectives
Understand how to construct an early Victorian optical toy and produce moving images using the device.
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Understand how to construct an easy moving image device.
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Understand how expressions can help to define a character.
How different shots are used to create a film.
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To visualise a scene before writing about it within a story. Emphasis placed on vocabulary, description, language and sentence structure.
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To construct a story from the images existing in a static painting.
