Category: Flipbookit

Transdigital Display

4/22/2018

The flipbookits were attached to illustration board with brass fasteners. Then I printed and loaded the flipbook cards into the boxes.

Our ABC/25 grant for Flipbookits is going to help our school population understand how students are exploring transdigital art production. This means that they are seamlessly moving from physical to digital art making in our art room. Our hallways are full of physical art on display, but the many digital projects that extend their learning in most of the projects is not on display UNTIL NOW. Each Flipbookit represents a digital project. They are a short physical peek at a digital lesson that can be viewed online.

Click to learn more about the Magic Carpet Ride lesson

Click to learn more about this stop-motion green screen movement lesson

Click to learn more about this 1st grade clay penguin lesson

Our @Flipbookit display of #digital #art made physical will be unveiled next week thanks to a grant from @ABC25Foundation #Drydenrocks #transdigital #steam #k12artchat #edtech #makerspace #makered @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/DqzawumQl2
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018

Learn about our Transdigital art room

Learn more about the transdigital lessons shown above:
1. Penguins 2. Magic Carpet Ride 3. Patriotic Lip Sync
4. Bedroom at Arl(lington Heights) 5. Movement 6. Try Your Best

This movie will give you a five minute tour of 20 transdigital lessons. View the post here.

Redefining the Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

QR Code for Framed Art in School

James' art on display

James' animation via QR Code

David's art on display

David's animation via QR Code

Dominick's art on display

Dominick's animation via QR Code

Piper's art on display

Piper's animation via QR Code

QR Codes for Framed Art at Admin

Ashlyn's Art on Display

Ashlyn's Animation via QR Code

Callie's Art on Display

Callie's Animation via QR Code

Rachel's Art on Display

Rachel's Animation via QR Code

Mia's Art on Display

Mia's Animation via QR Code

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Practicing Rotoscoping

9/21/2017

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Last year my fifth graders made collaborative rotoscope animations that we put into flipbookit.com mutoscopes. It was pretty amazing to see digital art become physical through this fun viewer. See the post with all the how tos here. Below is the display I set up this school year showcasing their flipbookits. I used this display to introduce the concept to my 4th graders.

I want to do a rotoscope movie making lesson with my 4th graders so we tried a collaborative rotoscope as a practice round. Each student was assigned one frame of a video to draw a contour line drawing over. They used the Do Ink drawing app this time since it will be the tool for their real animation. This picture shows them in action.

Each of the 90 students contributed one drawing to this collaborative rotoscope animation.

The animation was uploaded to the flipbookit site to be fitted for their mutoscope.

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Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope

5/16/2017

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I'm super excited to have found the Flipbookit in my Twitter feed a month or so ago. The discovery came at a time where I was thinking about how to display our class animations as I was preparing for rotoscope animations lesson with my 5th graders. What a perfect solution. The flipbookit is a DIY kit that creates a retro styled mutoscope, an early motion picture hand cracked flipbook device. This box has a crank that spins a rolodex of cards that you can customize through their online tool printed on labels. It took me 1 hour to put the box together and 1/2 hr to print, stick, and load the art. They are too expensive to have each student make their own, but because of their design, they make for a really simple all class rotoscope collaborative project. I'll try to explain.

Collaborative Rotoscope

The Flipbookit animation is only 24 frames long. That is a pretty short video.
It would be best if the video loops too since the crank allows you to view it over and over again. So, I asked one 5th grader from each of the 4 classes to volunteer to be filmed performing a short dance move that would easily loop. Here they are below.

Rotoscope in a Mutoscope from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

1. Film a short looping video

I filmed them before green screen and used the Green Screen app by Do Ink to clean up the background so my animators would be undistracted by the background and better able to focus on the dancers when they draw their rotoscope.

2. Prepare the 24 frames of video

The Flipbookit website has an online maker tool that helps you prepare for a rotoscope animation. After you upload the looping video to their site, you can chose the portion you want to use, see a preview, and download the 24 frames of the video. These frames are what your students will draw over to make the rotoscope. If you have 24 students, then they each need to draw only one frame of the animation. We were able to do this in one 45 minute class period while learning the app, tools, and concept.

3. Preparing the tools to draw

Since the class is going to make one collaborative animation, we need each of the 24 frames of the video to look similar. The size of the image, color of the pen, thickness of the pen, and style of the drawing need to be similar enough that the illusion of movement is created. I set some parameters ahead of time when I created my example. Here is the handout to set up the drawing in the Brushes Redux app.

The Brushes Redux App allows you to choose a custom size canvas. You need 800 x 667. Do not resize the photo when you import it. It will be exactly 800 x 667 and needs to stay as inserted to match the other drawings.

We used a solid opaque black line size 4

The photo layer is semi transparent so we could see our black lines & we drew on the layer above. We make the photo layer disappear (close the eye icon) then save our drawing to the camera roll

Students each had an iPad, stylus, handout, and a chance to view a physical flipbook

4. Turn in and rename digital files

I shared out the flipbookit images through my dropbox. Each student was assigned a number and drew their piece of the animation based on this image. When they were done, they turned back their art into a new folder with the number and their name on the file. It automatically organized by number. I was ready to upload it to the flipbookit maker tool.

----VIEW STUDENT IMAGES HERE----

4.5 (optional) Made an animated gif

I wanted to see how the 24 drawings would look as a digital animation so I loaded them into https://ezgif.com/maker to make an animated gif from the images.

5. Print and load the flipbookit

PDF generated from the 24 frame animation made by students ready to print.

I followed the online directions for converting the 24 drawings into a pdf that would be printed onto the special sized labels that came with the DIY Flipbookit. I stuck them on the blank cards and loaded them into the rolodex to see the magic of Mutoscope animation from our collaborative rotoscope animation.

Digital animation made physical

Displaying the Mutoscopes:

Resource:

Every Night I Dream Of Dancing by Andrew Huang is a music video collaboration of thousands of drawings from 30 different artists. The song is fun and the artwork is very inspiring. It has much more color and creativity than this project, but now that we've learned the process, perhaps next time we can take it further.
Drawing from Experience
This lesson requires student to create a CONTOUR LINE DRAWING. Allow the old and wise (and very little from all the years of sharpening) Grandpa Pencil explain more.

Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Watch this brainpop video that explains Traditional Animation (need a login)

Extension: Build a Mutoscope Viewer

A package arrived the other day in a very cool box. I was heading out to recycle it when it occurred to me that the flip top that opens to a windowed interior may make a cool viewer for my Flipbook (mutoscope). I'm not done painting the inside or customizing my own animation yet, but I thought I'd share what I started here.