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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School Arts: Rotoscope in a Mutoscope

2/20/2022

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Read about our Collaborative Rotoscope Animation Project in School Arts Magazine March 2022

I wrote up the Rotoscope in a Mutoscope collaborative lesson for School Arts Magazine. They put it in their Media Arts issue, March of 2022. You can read the full post here. Since the lesson (literally) has lots of moving parts, I decided to package up the whole lesson in a step by step media filled eBook. This guides the student and/or teacher through every step with tutorials, examples, and any printable handouts from beginning until the end of this project. It's SO worth it! The results are simple magical. View here.

packaged lesson

Read the article

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Transdigital Art Workshop, Georgia

7/27/2019

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I had the honor of working with the awesome art teachers of Cobb County, Georgia on their professional development day. I did a 70 minute workshop (3xs) for art teachers who wanted to learn how to integrate technology into their art programs using the iPad. Curated a few Transdigital art examples from my 266 STEAM art lessons indexed on my SMORE page (bookmark this page).

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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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Webinar and MiniCon

1/19/2019

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Two events are on my calendar this week that you might want to check out:

Tuesday, Jan. 22nd
Online Webinar about AR in ART

Webinar Registration

Click to register. Free for IAEA members. Earn .5 PD hours

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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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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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Make it and Move it: Patterned Paintings

3/3/2018

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My students made beautiful patterned figure paintings to show movement. See their gallery on Artsonia. These paintings are also the backdrop for a stop-motion digital extension lesson where students animated a mannequin to show movement over their movement paintings. See this lesson and results here.

Make the Painting Move:

Original painting

Animated Painting

Here is the new digital extension animation plan: Import the digital picture of student art into Brushes Redux. On a layer over the image, recreate the center figure by tracing. Save this image as a png with a transparent background. Then mask out the same figure from original painting and redraw the color and pattern the figure had covered. This forces the student to consider the elements of foreground, overlapping, color, and pattern in a dynamic way. Save the masked painting to the camera roll. Import both images into the Do Ink animation and drawing app in composition mode. Set an animation path and add rotation to the figure. Save this as a video. Here is a quick overview tutorial of all the steps here.

Make it and Move it Patterned Figures from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Trace, match the colors, and recreate the center figure on a new layer in Brushes Redux. Save PNG

Don't crop so the figure remains in the same aspect/place it was in the painting

Match colors and mask over the figure, redraw what would have been behind the figure

finished animation

I've been thinking that the figure without pattern would be best to isolate in this process. But, what if that figure is not in the foreground. Does it still work? Why not just isolate the most foreground figure regardless of pattern. Students could redraw the pattern digitally. I wasn't planning on this digital extension when I was instructing students in the design of their lesson. (Download the lesson here from TpT) If I were to do this again, I would have students make the unpatterned figure in the center also in the foreground to make this digital animation a bit easier for them.

Students Working:

Turn up your volume. Yep, it's perfectly quiet. Every single student is digitally painting. They understand the app interface, the concept, their purpose, & the overall goal. They are THINKING LIKE ARTISTS as they digitally create. This is what I've wanted to see for 18 years. This is the results of digital art projects since these 5th graders were kindergarteners. This is the results of being an iPad art teacher for 7 years. This is AMAZING! They are feeling right now how cool it is to work in such a forgiving media. They didn't appreciate the possibilities of the media when they struggled with the tools. Now, the struggle has ended with a hush as they drift into a calm flow of art-making.

Thinking Like Artists from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Finished movies

Patterned Animation 5-1 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Patterned Animation 5-2 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Patterned Animation 5-3 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Patterned Animation 5-4 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Dynamically Demonstrating Movement

2/7/2018

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5th graders will be dynamically demonstrating the concept of movement over their paintings about movement through the magic of stop motion animation and green screen. Here is the post about this lesson from when we first tried it. One big difference this time around is that we have 6 Dewey iPad stands (thanks to an ABC/25 grant) that gives us lift and stability.

Green Screen and Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Step One: Painting about Movement

Click here to view their gallery of finished art on Artsonia.
You can download this lesson (step by step ppt) from TPT here.

Adding line and shape patterns with permapaque markers to our #movement/figure paintings
See our #fugleflick about pattern called REPEAT: https://t.co/3m3LKF7jLN #artsed #k12artchat #mustmakemon pic.twitter.com/TdcaPdXI3M
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) January 30, 2018

Step Two: Green Screen Stop Motion

I put together a guide for setting up this lesson and a step by step powerpoint for creating the figure painting here:
Download the green screen stop motion lesson from TpT here.
You can also download the figure drawing painting ppt lesson from TpT here.

Big fun in store for my 5th graders#stopmotion #animation with #GreenScreen
They will layer their movement videos into their movement paintings #d25ItsPersonal #drydenrocks #steam @DoInkTweets #edtech #artsed #k12artchat #makered #makerspace pic.twitter.com/39WWtGW1Zs
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018

5th graders working collaboratively on their #greenscreen #stopmotion #animations Dynamically demonstrating movement. It will be layered with @DoInkTweets app over their #art #steam #edtech #artsed #k12artchar #makered #makerspace #drydenrocks #d25ItsPersonal pic.twitter.com/xz1qUCdzZv
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018