The 'flip book' L. referenced in the reminder note she posted on her door last week included the culmination of a week's worth of drawing for an animated movie she had been working on at art camp.
Her book included 74 individual drawings she made in order to create an animated movie (hence the note to herself not to freak out that her special drawing book, that represented hours and hours of work, wasn't home that night).
The movie was made by simply taking a picture of each drawing (using a tripod to frame all the photos the same way) and then importing them in to iMovie. She imported the Dvorak piece (her choice as she believed the music suited her story best) and added the titles and credits to finish it off.
This project was done in a similar way to the claymation movies she made earlier this spring. As I said to a friend, it's no drooling possum (the subject of her first animation movie), but there are some recognizable characters and is still amusing all the same.
The movie is done (and the camp over) and after watching "The Story of the Little Red Ball" and seeing how much work she put in to it (and how happy she was with the final results), I told her I'd post her movie on my blog today.
And just to be clear, making an animated movie like this is not that hard to do (and this post is not meant to be braggart-like, just a special recognition from mom for a kid who worked hard on her project). I offer the step-by-step instructions on making the claymation movies that are the same for this sort of animation only substituting the drawings for the clay movements (but L and I agree that clay is much less time-consuming).
This is also a GREAT rainy day activity for older kids and can keep them busy for hours, which I mention just in case the sun doesn't hold out all week.
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