This DANCE PARTY was inspired by the Christmas dance party scene in the Peanuts animation where each child is dancing in place on the dance floor in a continuous loop. We can try something similar using the Do Ink Animation app with these steps:
1. Get inspired by Peanut's Dance Party
2. Each student creates one dancer
1. Open up Do Ink Animation app and chose a "new drawing"
2. Choose brush size 5 and black and draw your first pose with closed shapes (so you can pour for coloring later)
3. Click the + in the timeline (bottom right corner) and draw the next pose
​4. Repeat until you have 5 poses
5. Use the pour bucked and color each frame with the same color scheme.
6. Click on pose 4 in timeline, chose the double arrows to reveal "copy" & choose it
7. Click on frame 5 (last frame) and click "paste"
8. Click on frame 3, choose "copy". Click on last frame (now frame 6) click "paste"
9. Click on frame 2, choose "copy". Click on last frame (now frame 7) click "paste"
10. Click the play button and see if the animation loops nicely
2. Choose brush size 5 and black and draw your first pose with closed shapes (so you can pour for coloring later)
3. Click the + in the timeline (bottom right corner) and draw the next pose
​4. Repeat until you have 5 poses
5. Use the pour bucked and color each frame with the same color scheme.
6. Click on pose 4 in timeline, chose the double arrows to reveal "copy" & choose it
7. Click on frame 5 (last frame) and click "paste"
8. Click on frame 3, choose "copy". Click on last frame (now frame 6) click "paste"
9. Click on frame 2, choose "copy". Click on last frame (now frame 7) click "paste"
10. Click the play button and see if the animation loops nicely
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2. Share the Do Ink Files
One of the cool things about the Do Ink animation app is that you can share your files from one device to another. We used the DropBox in my art room so students would save their animation using "DATA" then choose "Dropbox" and navigate to the Dance Party folder, rename it and save.
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Sharing our original Do Ink files means that we and put together a group animation with multiple dancers while retaining all all layering, resizing, and editing functions.
3. Bring the dancers into 1 composition
4 dancers in one (16:9 ratio) composition with empty background
Import a clip and navigate to the Do Ink file
Each group will make one composition on one iPad with each person's dancer.
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Use star to import dancers in a new composition
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4. Flipbook designs w/lines & shapes
flipbook design using colored shapes
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a flipbook design using colored lines
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Students can work in pairs on designing a shape or line design for the background of their party. It's helpful if they choose 16:9 ratio as they create. I would recommend NOT using black in the outlines or anywhere. It will look too busy in the final piece and visually confuse the viewer since the figures are outlined in black.
5. Layer in & fade the background
Use the gear to select transparency in and out on the background layers
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I chose to add a floor so that the figures weren't dancing on air. I made a new drawing, selected the square tool, and pulled out a rectangle. Then imported it into the composition using the star. I moved it to the layer under the dancers and in front of the background designs.
Dance floor made from shape tool
I also chose a BACKGROUND COLOR from the "i" properties button in composition mode.
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Dance party: 4 dancers, two backgrounds, one floor with a background color
Related Projects:
Alien Music Invasion post full of fun musical creatures
Click to see this project full of singing, dancing, and instrument playing aliens
Peanutize yourself like my students did using this link.
Resource: Learn about line and shape pattern with this fun (and repetitive) fuglelflick, Repeat
Repeat from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
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