Summary
One finished version of the collaborative 'Art Together Now' project, animated with a praxinoscope — a spinning pre-film device that makes a strip of drawings look like they move. A beautiful example of community art and old-fashioned animation.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Many people's drawings became one moving artwork.
- How does a praxinoscope make still drawings look like they move?
- What is special about art made by a whole community together?
- What would you contribute to a group animation?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: praxinoscope, animation, collaborate, motion.
Try it: Draw one frame of a shared class animation — a single moment of a simple motion — to add to everyone else's.