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4th graders are embarking on a project I've been wanting to try to for a couple of years. We are going to do collaborative lip sync rotoscope animated movies. Each class of 4th grade will make a patriotic movie using their artwork and voice. Together their words or phrases will be edited together to recite the preamble of the constitution, the pledge of allegiance, and the ending of The Colossus poem on the State of Liberty.
1. Assign parts
I went through each of the patriotic themed pieces and broke it into enough "parts" that each student could contribute one word or phrase. I wanted each part to be only 1 second of video if possible. This would keep the number of drawings somewhere between 5-8.
2. Recording
The week before we draw the rotoscope, we record video of each student speaking their part into the camera. I used an iRig microphone to help get better audio. Since audio really counts for this project, I needed to ask all the students for full cooperation. I gave them paper and monster packets to draw from as they waited for their classmates to be recorded.
I set up each video with a tight close up so that students could easily draw their face and the changes in their expression and mouth as they say their word or phrase. I use the iOgrapher tripod mount for my iPad so that I would have steady footage. 3. Prep the footage
I always leave a bit of lead and end time when I film so that no words are cut off. This means that the footage I took of the students needs trimming. After I transfer my files to my desktop (via dropbox or google drive app) I pull up each clip in quicktime, trim, and rename the file to "number_phrase_studentName". This puts all the files in order which will help for future editing.
4. Prep for Rotoscoping
This handout helps students get their video imported into the Do Ink Animation app to the correct layer, add some transparency, get a small frame rate, adjust ghost images (I find them distracting in this project so I turned them off), and set up the brush tool.
Preparing for Rotoscope
5. Contour Line Drawing
Students will be lead through the first drawing so I can share my recommendations for how to draw the features of the face in a simple but accurate way. This contour line drawing lesson will help them get into a good pattern of attention to detail and accuracy.
6. Putting it all together
4-1 and 4-2 The Preamble of the Constitution
4-4 Pledge of Allegiance Lip Sync
Resources:
This video introduces the idea of contour line drawings.
Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
This Rotoscope video will inspire your students.
Contour line drawing extension:
The students uploaded their favorite single still image from their rotoscope animation to Artsonia. This gallery description lead viewers (parents) to links to their movies. The image was drawn fast and without much art instruction since the focus of our class time was creating a series of drawings to make the rotoscope animation. Eventually, I would like students to spend some time working with their portrait drawing to take it to the next level using Colorscape app. This app will allow them to improve on their drawings and color the art without disturbing the black lines.
After importing the image I erased and changed black lines to improve artwork
I used an opaque marker to fill base colors and used a transparent brush to add shadows
 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. ..and other Individual Rotoscope Animation Ideas One of the super cool things about Do Ink Animation and Drawing app is that you can pull in photos or videos and draw over them. Drawing over each frame of a video is a technique called Rotoscope Animation. You probably have seen this technique in the famous music video from the 80's A-Ha's Take Me On. I also LOVE this music video and song by Andrew Huang, Every Night I Dream of Dancing, which is a rotoscope collaboration using 30 artists crowdsourced through the internet.
I tried many ways to instruct my students to create rotoscope animations collaboratively, but I've yet to have them create their own...until now. I think I've come up with some ideas that can make this project manageable for very little people.  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 RotoscopeThe 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. 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
3. Preparing the tools to drawSince 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
----VIEW STUDENT IMAGES HERE----4.5 (optional) Made an animated gifI 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
 screenshot of all the images in sequence ready to be made into a gif Want a high tech option?  We now have a class set of iPads available so I designed a lesson to try an iPad Rotoscope Animation collaboration. It's the same idea but no need for transparencies, scanning, or printing. Everything is organized and created digitally. Explore it here.
 I have done a presentation called Creative Digital Projects that turn Stem to STEAM at three conferences over the past couple of years. These 45-50 minute presentations include a bizillion ideas in a media packed keynote file that I have trouble sharing online. However I did create a condensed version of the presentation for the AOE Online Conference last summer. The presentation has been behind a pay wall for one year and can finally come out for public consumption now. The following lessons are shared in the video below. Learn more from my links. Also, see Wes Fryer's review of my live presentation at the Illinois Computer Educator's Conference here.  Not Christina's World Anymore (art, writing, Photography, technology) Blog post of resources Student examples Download lesson plan Tip: Use the Superimpose app to eliminate the green screen. See my tutorial.  The Digital Scream (art, storytelling, photography, drama, technology) Blog post of resources Students' painted examples Students' digital examples Spooky Scream video Download your custom photo booth-your face in the scream Tip: Use the Superimpose app to eliminate the green screen. See my tutorial.  Cat in a Hat-ify Yourself (Reading, Dr. Seuss, graphic design, technology) Custom Photo Booth Effect to Cat-in-a-Hat-ify yourself Directions and resources for iPad Bookmarks Cat-in-a-hat-ified Book Covers Cat in a Hat-ified Art Project Students' Cat in a Hat Art on PBS TV  American Gothic Spoof (storytelling, great depression, juxtapose, spoof) Interactive American Gothic lesson and tutorial Blog post with lesson resources American Gothic Spoof (edited SNL skit) American Gothic Spoof-o-matic resources Student American Gothic Spoof examples Download the American Gothic Custom Photo Booth FX  Artist Statements (writing, graphic design, technology) Resources for making these on iPads Students' iPad examples Student examples made on using photoshop and keynote  6 Words About Me (writing, poetry, technology) Blog post with resources Monochromatic Painting Blog post Download the 3/4 portrait PPT lesson Monochromatic Fugleflick (music video to teach concept) Student examples  Tech w/ George Washington Blog post with resources Even more fun with George and Tech Facing the facts: history and art Student paintings Download my PPT lesson plan  Superhero Silhouettes (character education, graphic design, drama) iPad directions and resources with video tutorial Keynote directions and resources with video tutorial Student art Download the art/character education lesson  Eat Your Veggies (healthy choices, acting, technology, literacy) Blog post with resources and tutorial video Student art Eat Your Veggies video Download my Digital Lima Bean Monster lesson Download our interactive Lima Bean Monster eBook  Surreal Healthy Choices (graphic design, healthy choices, surrealism) Blog post with lesson resources and video Students' digital spoofs of Son of Man Students' painted Son of Man portraits Supplement with Connect a Concept game where students use their social skills and knowledge of art concepts to make connections  Running Aliens (animation, figure drawing, technology, storytelling) Student examples (screenshots from movie) Class movies of Alien Invasions Original lesson blog post with resources and tutorial Download my lesson plan here  Rotoscope Animation
(collaboration, animation) Notes from my Rotoscoping project Our very silent movie STEMie Award View our (cute) Fugleflick about contour line drawing UPDATE: NEW SONG RECORDED TO INSPIRE YOU TO VOTE:) As many of you may already know, Dryden has a project, Rotoscope Animation on iPads, in the running for $15,000 on the McGraw-Hill STEMie Awards. That would buy a lot of iPad for our students! Please help us with your vote. You have to login first with an email then vote. That's all! Thanks so much to all the Tweeple that have been helping to spread the word! See below:
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