Summary
Animation is just very patient sequencing: the SciGirls program characters frame by frame and debug the motion until it reads the way they pictured it.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Full episode (28 min) from SciGirls, season 5.
- How does a series of still pictures turn into movement?
- What happened when a step was out of order?
- What story would you animate?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: animation, frame, sequence, debug.
Try it: Make a six-page flipbook of one moving object. Note which frame you had to redraw and why.