I can help if you want. @AmyManata @timneedles would be fun to animate a butter dream & watch the dream melt away
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) July 4, 2015
I saw a tweet from Amy (above) who's twitter profile says, "Life is a butter dream." She explained that this phrase came from her son's interpretation of the "row, row, row your boat" song. See her sketchbook drawing based on it here.
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So, I thought about how fun it would be to make an animation illustration of her phrase. There may be a bunch of steps, but a nice place to begin is using DoInk Animation app to make a flipbook style animation of butter melting. Here is my tutorial that gets you started on the process. You need DOINK loaded on your iPAD and a stylus. I just made up the melting process, but it may help to watch a video showing melting or go to your stove and melt some butter.
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Next step is to take this animation and combine it with a photo, another animation, or a drawing that it can interact with. I had a tiny animation from my last post of a head with eyes that looked around. It was already in my gallery on DoInk so you'll see I just pulled it in for the next tutorial. You could pull in a photo (using camera icon) if you save it to your camera roll first.
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Sun Day #TERPart #k12artchallenge @AmyManata, @doinktweets https://t.co/CVmHNRyqXn
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) July 5, 2015
Row Row Rotoscope your boat
Here is a how to 'row row row your boat" using a rotoscope technique in DoInk. I'll be using this rowing video clip if you want to download it and give it a try. |
Rowing Rotoscope from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Now that you've learned about flipbook animation, composition mode, rotoscoping maybe you're ready put all the pieces together into a video or gif that you can share. Make sure you copy me into your tweet (@fuglefun) so I can take a peek.
I put together my interpretation of Amy's butter dream song below. |