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Snow Globe Effect

11/21/2017

This snow globe effect is a fun way to teach transparency, animation, and layering with green screen. Students can add a still image, animation, pre-recorded or live video to their globe. I was inspired by the Green Screen Maker Space Book by Todd Burleson (lesson 6). I downloaded the image suggested and began trying to figure out a way to turn the project into a video with a layer of snow. I go through all the steps in this app smash in the tutorial below or here.

This multimedia packaged lesson has everything you need to lead your students through a snow globe lesson and photo booth experience

Animated Snow Globe Lesson Explained from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Snow Globe Tutorial from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

My app smash journey:

1. Modified snow globe with table and drop shadow using superimpose app

2. Imported image into ColorLake app and recorded snow effect

3. Imported still image into Green Screen App by Do Ink and masked out the globe interior

4. Imported the colorlake video of snowing below the masked image in the green screen app

5. Exported the video to flatten the effect. Looks like snow only inside the snow globe.

6. Make the video semi-transparent inside the globe with the oval tool set at 25%

7. Made an image of plain white for the bottom layer in GS app to create a background

8. Use the middle layer to add your subject (snowman art with erased background)

9. STILL IMAGE: record a video to show snow animation or take a still image with snow

10. Draw an animation in DoInk Animation app, export as video or save to do ink shared folder

11. Add live or pre-recorded video using green screen

Grab my resources and get started:

Download my video below and import it into the top layer of the Green Screen App by Do Ink. Use the mask tool to make the center of the globe semi-transparent (see step 6 above). Then download my white image here. Import this into the bottom layer. Now you're ready to add a still, animation, or live video to the center layer.

OR better yet download the prepared green screen file while on your iPad and open it in the GS app by Do Ink. It's all ready for you to add the subject on the middle layer.

snowglobe16.9.doink-gs
File Size:	1183 kb
File Type:	snowglobe16.9.doink-gs

Download File

1st_grade_snow_globe_trimmed_.doink-gs
File Size:	1366 kb
File Type:	1st grade snow globe trimmed .doink-gs

Download File

Open the file on an iPad. Click and hold, use the share button, choose green screen app.

Student results:

The Do Ink Animation app allows you to share your drawings to a Do Ink shared folder that you can pull up in the Green Screen app. This means you can keep the animations at full quality and retain transparency.
Take a look at how a rotoscope animation looks inside the snow globe.

Creativity Prompts: (to make this a lesson)

See this post from Terri Eichholz prompting students to consider what it would be like if you lived inside a snowglobe (as seen in the short film, Bumbleville.) See this post too.

28 Comments

Mary Jane

11/22/2017 04:05:48 pm

I cannot figure out how to download the video. Can you help?
Thanks,
MJ

Tricia Fuglestad

11/23/2017 09:22:21 am

Hi Mary Jane,
When you click play on the video you'll see a download button show up on the far right lower corner. Click that and it will download to the location of your choice.

11/23/2017 06:55:06 pm

You rock! Thank you so much. We are hoping to have so much fun with this.

Katie

12/1/2017 08:59:42 am

Thank you so much for sharing this! How do I make it longer in DoInk? I have tried copy and paste, but I must not be pressing the right buttons. SO ADORABLE!

Tricia

12/3/2017 03:10:26 pm

There is a way to copy and paste when you click the video a space lifts up and reveals a copy and paste choice. Scroll to the end of the clip and paste it again,

12/3/2017 03:32:11 pm

Is there a way to add a Christmas background!

Thanks, MJ

Tricia Fuglestad

12/5/2017 12:14:25 pm

You can switch out the plain while color I put on the bottom layer with any image from your iPad camera roll.

Lynette

12/10/2017 08:29:16 am

Thank you so much for sharing this. I saw this idea on doinkapps but couldn't figure out how they created it. So kind of you to share! Hope I can create the same with my students!

Shari

12/12/2017 05:59:15 pm

Thank you so much for your snow globe effects post. I love it! I have 21 kindergarten students and I would like to create one long video with each student getting time in the snow globe. Do you know if that's possible.

Tricia Fuglestad

12/14/2017 04:04:23 pm

Hi Shari,
Yes, it's possible. Just copy and paste the effect for each of the 21 students and then record the students with live camera. One way would be to line them all up and give them two seconds on camera each. If you want to set the movie to music you can mute the audio from the DoInk app in iMovie and add a layer of holiday music instead.

Sissie Lola link

12/19/2017 09:59:20 pm

Wow! You blow me away with your creativeness and clever ways of creating art digitally. I love art myself... I was an art major a life time ago... Then, I decided I needed to eat. So, changed my major and went on with Liberal Studies which turned into teaching (which I had always wanted to do since I was little). Anyway, I continue to do minor art projects at home and with my students. In fact, last year, my class successfully completed a STEAM project. I created a video on that. If your interested, I will be posting on my coming website w/ #CUEIEC. Happy Holidays!!! Keep cooking such Aaahhh May Zzzing projects! 🙋🏻💕👍🏼

Sharon

12/5/2018 02:36:54 pm

I can’t download the resources. 😥😥😥

Tricia Fuglestad

12/10/2018 05:11:18 pm

I uploaded a movie (animated gif) that shows how you click on the file while on an iPad and open it in the Green Screen app.

jenifer

12/3/2019 03:13:11 pm

Thank you so much for sharing!

Sara Evans

12/4/2019 11:05:16 am

Thank you! Did this with my 3rd graders yesterday and highlighted one on morning announcements today. They LOVE it. :) And they're going to make my windows pop. ;)
With gratitude from Arizona,
-Technology K-5 Specials teacher, Mrs. Evans

Michelle

12/4/2019 05:36:02 pm

Hi Trish, when I click the share button on my iPad after downloading the file it doesn’t show the Do Ink app. I can’t even get the file to move to the camera roll either. I can download it to my drive but nothing more. Can you help me? I even tried it on my iPhone with no luck.

Shannon

12/5/2019 10:23:50 am

I had the exact same thing happen.

Tricia Fuglestad

12/6/2019 12:09:58 pm

The new iOS is working differently than it used to. I had to do a work around and put the GS doink file on by dropbox or google drive. Then, when I open the Green Screen app I chose "import a project" and navigate to the file. Hope this works.

Tricia

12/6/2019 12:11:05 pm

So, here is my work-a-round. The new iOS is working differently than it used to. I put the GS doink file on by dropbox or google drive. Then, when I open the Green Screen app I chose "import a project" and navigate to the file. Hope this works.

Michelle

12/9/2019 05:35:28 pm

Thanks Tricia, it worked using import a project.

Michelle

12/16/2019 11:16:45 am

Hi Tricia,
I can only get your import a project to work on my iphone and not on my school ipads. The file just won't open from the drive with this import the project work around. Any other ideas?

Tricia Fuglestad

12/16/2019 06:33:12 pm

Today I tried to import a project from my dropbox on an older iPad and found it was sluggish. It didn't work the first try. I tried again, held the button longer (wished to heaven) then it worked.
Sounds like your phone is newer than your ipads. .

Michelle

12/16/2019 06:52:34 pm

Truth! Haha! I'm positive my phone is newer! And I'm so glad you made the tutorial. Because I bought all the apps and was able to make the whole thing and email it to myself. I signed onto the iPad and opened the file and was able to download it. Crazy right. I'll have to sign onto every iPad I want to use the file on I think and download it that same way. I thought it might be a fun way for my school to announce a snow day online if some of the kids made them in advance.

Daphne Smyrl

12/19/2019 04:36:23 pm

I finally got it to work!!! This was a great introduction to green screen for my 4th graders. Thank you for all of your work.

Tricia Fuglestad

1/14/2020 05:21:28 pm

Yeah! so glad

LInda link

1/9/2020 07:26:02 am

Tricia, You are a lifesaver. Thank you so much for saving me hours of work. My students loved this project. I'm going to tag you when I tweet one of the videos out. You rock. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Tricia Fuglestad

1/14/2020 05:22:10 pm

Awesome! Looking forward to it :)

Courtney S

2/10/2020 12:02:04 pm

This is amazing!! Do you have any other projects you've done on doink that you'd share so we could just import and use?