GIFS!

As part of our animation unit, digital art students practiced basic stop motion animation techniques by working on simple gifs animating a lego character that they designed earlier in the year. First the students designed their lego avatars, then we took pictures of the legos which were uploaded into photoshop and edited. Then students chose a background, either from an image they found online or one they drew themselves, and superimposed their lego character onto the background. Then they created an animation which consisted of 10-20 frames. Lastly we used an online gif creator (gifpal) and animated them. This helped us get a better grasp on animation and also allowed the students to create a gif of their own. Stay tuned for our stop motion animation videos, which will be coming soon!