Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Lip-Sync Stop-Motion Animation Guide

3/21/2021

I created a resource and tutorial for making a simple lip sync stop motion animation based on a drawn portrait with young students.

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Second Grade Self-Portraits

3/3/2019

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Click to view gallery of finished portraits

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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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DonorsChoose 3D Lego Portrait Grant

8/29/2018

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Donate to our Grant

Years back our art room received an ABC/25 Foundation grant for a lego wall. We've done some amazing collaborative pieces over the years like our Black History Lego Portraits, Rotational Symmetry, and Character Counts murals. Now we would like to try to make 3D lego portraits individually. This will require more plates and more legos. I wrote a DonorsChoose.org grant to help get the supplies we need. Please consider helping us with any size donation. Thank you!

Support our 3D Lego Portrait Grant

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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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Keynote for iPad: Drawing Feature

6/30/2018

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Drawing of Alodie Gossh using Keynote Drawing feature on iPad

I just started playing with the apps that I learned about during ISTE18 in Chicago. One that I'm really drawn to is an updated version of an old Apple app, Keynote. As of spring I learned from @karlyb that keynote had added a drawing feature to their iPad app. As I was searching this topic on twitter I found Mrs. Kellenberger's twitter feed showing student drawings like this one made using Keynote. She shared her tutorial that she made for her students (below) demonstrating a contour line drawing over a photo.

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Realistic George Washington Portrait

10/5/2017

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MAKE IT then MOVE IT: animated GIF

7/7/2017

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A long time ago I responded to Ian Sands on twitter asking for digital images of children's art that he could offer to his high school students to play with as they learn to animate. Some of his students selected my students "He Came with the Chair" paintings. The animations turned out SO adorable and inspiring-see example below or check them all out here. It has been one of my goals to figure out an elementary level lesson with a straightforward app that would give my students the experience of animating their own artwork in the same style. I think I might have figured it out. This technique isn't perfect, but, it will work.

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Realistic and Abstract

4/25/2016

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My second graders had two very different portrait experiences this year. First they learned all the rules for creating a REALISTIC self-portrait with features drawn in the correct places with correct proportions. We carefully measured and studied the face to make these beautiful winter self portraits. View the gallery of finished work here.

Then, these same students were given cardboard, foam board, puzzle pieces, and odds and ends. They were shown examples from this School Arts article by Donna Staten and images of Picasso's cubist portraits. They were then told to go ahead and break all the rules to make ABSTRACT portraits. See the growing gallery here.

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Portraits with LED Accessories

1/30/2015

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I've developed a couple ideas in my quest to find ways to incorporate paper circuits in art work for my elementary students.
Above are two portrait paintings on paper that have paper circuits with copper tape, button cell batteries, and an LED light. When you push the button on the man's shirt or the broach around the woman's neck, the circuit is completed and the LED lights up. See the video below.

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battery and copper tape

Paper circuit on back of art

Paintings with #papercircuits #Steam #artsed LED accessories

A video posted by Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) on Jan 29, 2015 at 4:47pm PST

UPDATE: I tried adding the concept of paper circuits to a canvas painting. In this light up interactive painting there is no "button" to close the circuit. Instead there is a spring behind the painting over the cell battery. When you find and press the "sweet spot" the circuit is complete and the LED lights up the engagement ring.