Haunted Hologram made with Do Ink Animation and Drawing app
Click to download the Spooky Hologram Lesson
Custom Animated Hologram
with Do Ink Drawing and Animation App
 make a flipbook style animation  Make this looping animation into a hologram  Click image to download template  pyramid hologram viewer | A year ago I learned about using a smartphone to view holograms. The idea definitely interested me but it needed to be tweaked to work for my art room. First, I needed the idea to work on iPads since that is what students have access to. Secondly, I wanted my students to be makers, not just consumers, so I needed a way for them to make their own hologram videos in the style of these examples. Today, I finally got around to working on solving these problems. I looked to an old favorite app Do Ink Animation and Drawing app and remembered how easily you can copy and paste layers, rotate animations, and work over a black background: all things needed for this effect. I downloaded the template (on left) and traced it onto a piece of transparency, folded it and made a pyramid viewer. Then, I made a video tutorial showing how to make one flipbook style animated ghost became four in a rotationally symmetrical design so that you can view it as a hologram through the pyramid. Next, I want to see if I can make this effect work with video using the Green Screen app by Do Ink. It will take some more steps because it only allows 3 layers at a time and one of those would have to be the black background. Hmmm...sounds like another post. (Update: look below...) |
Haunted Hologram from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Download my examples: (open in Do ink)
 Click for Ghost |  Click for Alien |  Click for Superhero |
Student work:
I wanted this experience to be a one day pre-halloween event. So I had students work with a partner while we played the tutorial and followed along. I had 6 viewers made and passed one out per table so they could see their results.
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Viewing our Holograms from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Other Haunted resources
I printed this handout to help them see ideas for drawing ghosts with closed shapes
We had enough time in our class period to watch a spooky story too.
Other Haunted Art Room Lesson:
| If you're looking for a way to use the ghost theme (not hologram idea) I have a post that explains how students can make their semi-transparent ghost animation travel over a photo to look like it is haunting your class room. See this post for all the details. |  |
Other themes for your class holograms:
Alien invasion holograms
See my post about the alien animation above.
Superhero holograms
See my post about making custom flipbook styled superheroes or winged sprites.
Custom Video Hologram
with Do Ink Green Screen App
 Custom Video Hologram as scene in viewer above iPad  Green screen video that loops nicely  2 layers "flattened" opposite each other with matched size | WHOA! I hoped it was possible, and now that I've experimented, I know it is.... Custom Video Holograms! To make these I used the Green Screen app by Do Ink and went through a few steps. First: I took green screen video of a student doing a movement that would loop nicely. Second: I imported it into the top two layers of the green screen app. I made them small (the same size) by pinching and rotated one until it was a reflection. Since I will need the video four times, I exported this video of just two to "flatten" it. Third: I imported the "flattened" two image video on the bottom level then rotated the other two levels to make the four videos into a radial design. Fourth: After checking that the images were matched in size and well placed, I exported the video to the camera roll. |
View from the Green Screen app by Do ink of all 4 videos (bottom layer is the flattened layer)
4 video images ready to make into a hologram with the viewer
  | Unlike the Do Ink animation app, the Green Screen app doesn't loop videos when you hit play. So, there are a few more steps before you can view the hologram. Fifth: Export the movie TWICE. The slideshow feature in photos on the iPad doesn't work with only one image or video. You have to have two copies of it. Sixth: Make an album in photos and select the two copies of your hologram video. Seventh: Click on the album and choose slideshow, click on the options to make it repeat. I couldn't figure out a way to keep the album name from NOT showing (until JLee wrote solution in the comments below-thanks!). Delete name, add a space. DONE! Put on the viewer and enjoy! |