Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Make it Move it Monster (Free Course)

3/24/2022

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Click the image to explore this free transdigital art animation course

Free Transdigital Art Course

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Augmented Reality Business Card

8/8/2019

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My business card comes to life and talks to you with augmented reality.
Here is how it works:
1. Download EyeJack App
2. Scan the QR code for FX
3. Scan the art on my card

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Transdigital Art Workshop

2/21/2019

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Elementary Art iPad Workshop

Art teachers in Wisconsin Rapids, WI wanted training in technology integration using iPads. They had recently acquired some iPads (not at 1:1 yet) for their art room. I shared a full day of my creation based transdigital lessons with them. Many of the ideas I shared had both a physical art making component and a digital extension that encompassed more art concepts as well as touching on the national art standards of creating, presenting, responding, and connecting.
All of my art lessons are indexed on my smore page.
Visit them here: https://www.smore.com/tgcne

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Putting AR in ARt: Augmented Reality

1/3/2019

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I've spent months playing with augmented reality in preparation for bringing into my classroom. My 5th graders were my first students to go through the steps I had envisioned of making art, making the art move through animation, then witnessing the art come alive with augmented reality as they scan the art and see the animation.
I wrote about this lesson and every step involved in this post.

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Make it & Move it: Monster Animations

10/20/2018

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First graders just finished up their symmetrical monster portraits inspired by the book, Go Away, Big Green Monster. I wrote up thepost with all the steps here.

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Simple Animated Portraits that Blink

10/17/2018

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Here is a simple idea for an animated portrait using two apps: Keynote and Ezgif.com
I wrote a post over the summer about how to use keynote for making portraits: explore it here. This will help you go through the steps of importing a photo, tracing over it, and using transparent color shapes to fill the portrait with color.

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Memoirs of a Robot

8/12/2018

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Early in the summer I received an email from a filmmaker, Mark Elias, who was about to launch a crowdfunding campaign for his next film, Memoirs of a Robot. He had come across a painting I had done of a robot a few years back and asked if I would like to donate a robot painting to his campaign as a perk for donors.

Well, I thought, why not? I hadn't painted robots in awhile, and I wanted to revisit the idea of making robots and animating them with my students. I have a post about my Make it and Move it idea here. So, I went ahead and made Annie Log and mailed it to Mark. I photographed her first and used that image to practice the animation technique I explain in the post.

Annie Log

Animated Annie Log

Do-Dad and Alumi-Mum on the cover of my AR Shutterfly book

Then, I began going bonkers over the idea of painting robots. I called it my robot phase (I might still be in it.) I painted Do-Dad and Alumi-Mum, Polly Phonic, and Anita Toonup. All of these robot paintings are showcased on this blog post. As you can see from the post, I animated each one of the robot paintings so that I would have plenty of examples to show my students when they try the technique this school year. THEN, I received a Shutterfly coupon in the mail. That's when I realized I had enough transdigital pieces of art to fill a Shutterfly book and practice using AR (augmented reality) to make the animations appear over the art. I've seen this technique recently at the ISTE conference and had it in the back of my mind. So, I designed the book, loaded it up with still images of art that I had or intended to animated, added a page with instructions for how to access the AR effects, and set it off to print. I went to HP Reveal studio to build my "auras" by setting the art as the "trigger image" and the animations as the "overlay". When the book arrived all I had to do was use the app to scan over the images and watch the magic.

The Indiegogo Campaign for Memoirs of a Robot will be offering posters of Annie Log as a perk for donations.
You can see Annie Log animate if you receive one of these posters. All you do is:

Download the HP Reveal app to your device
Follow my account Fuglefunart in the app
Use the app to scan the Annie Log Poster from and the animation will play right over Annie Log

Donate Today

A $100 donation to the movie project will get you a Limited Edition Poster of Annie Log
(that will move with augmented reality)

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Using Photoshop Fix to Animate Art

7/14/2018

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I've been playing with the drawing feature in Keynote ever since I learned about it at ISTE18. See my post with steps and a tutorial here.
I also have been working on animating robots lately too. Now the two ideas are coming together. At first I started thinking about making a portrait then trying to make it move through redrawing it in stages using the Brushes App. You can see below that I redrew the eyes by moving the irises and making them blink. These drawn, saved as steps, and complied in EZGIF.com to make an animated GIF.

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Robot Paintings with Augmented Reality

7/10/2018

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I was asked to make a robot painting for an upcoming kickstarter as a gift to those who donate. If all works out, Annie Log will become a poster for 100 or so supporters. The instructions I received was to make a robot like the one I made a few years ago and connect it someway to the idea of "love" (hence the heart button).

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Kindness Campaign: Moving Memes

9/18/2017

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Here is an idea I'm playing with. I would love for students to write a statement about how they can be kind next to themselves looking as sweet as an angel with flapping animated wings and halo or other symbols of kindness.

Learn about kindness in stories

Prepare your kindness statement

Download this brainstorming handout on front, and reference for wings on back.

Use this worksheet to prepare your kindness statement

How?

1. Students pose angelically before green screen.
2. Import the image into Superimpose App. Use masking tools (magic wand and paint brush) to erase the background. Save using "mask as png" to retain transparency.

3. Using the Do Ink animation app, student can animate the wings and halo using this guide to see some steps for moving the wings.

Students open up a new drawing in Do Ink animation app. They need to make a three frame drawing with the progression above. Then click on the 2nd drawing and copy it (copy and paste are revealed when you click on the double arrows in the bottom right corner). Click on the third drawing and choose "paste". This will put the 2nd drawing after the 3rd drawing to make a 1-2-3-2- progression that loops nicely.

4. Open another drawing in Do Ink animation app and draw a halo. Click + and draw another slightly different. Repeat until you have 3 frames with small changes in each.

5. Now you're ready to put all the pieces together. Open a new composition in Do Ink animation app and begin layering in your pieces. Start from the back to the front: import the wings (use the star button). HINT: DO NOT TOUCH THE GREEN BUTTON ON AN IMAGE YOU IMPORT. Doing so will create an animation path. That is a different effect. Resize by grabbing a handle on the edge, place it where you need it by touching it anywhere else but the green dot, slow down the animation (under the gear tab) to about half the speed. Next bring in the PNG pose from the camera roll (using the camera button). Resize/place. Bring in the halo (using the star) & resize/place/slow down animation. Next, choose the "T" to write your text. Resize/place. Next, pick a background color from the "i" tab at the top. Click the play button to test it out. When you're finished save as a video to your camera roll.

6. Convert the movie to a moving meme in a GIF format by using EZGIF.com
Save the GIF to your camera roll. It can play a GIF in places like Twitter or website.

Brainstorming strategy:

Follow this process to help students in class each come up with an original idea for being kind in a variety of spaces in the building. If this process works, student will learn from each other and each have a unique statement to add to their moving meme.

Resources:

Random Acts of Kindness Club (1st graders)

Our kindergarteners share their ideas of how to be kind.

How to be Kind by K-3 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Results: View the art on Artsonia

Teacher's note: We didn't make halos because the wings were more challenging than I expected them to be for my 3rd graders. We all drew the wings in the same direction and then flipped them if we needed to to correspond to their pose.