Animation Basics

Make drawings move — the principles of animation, from flipbooks to stop motion.

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Jessica Wray

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What Will You Learn?

Apply the core principles of animation

Make movement feel weighty and real

Make a flipbook and a stop-motion clip

Finish one short animated piece

About This Course

Animation is drawing plus timing, and timing is the part nobody teaches. This course covers the core principles — squash and stretch, anticipation, easing — and puts them to work in short exercises anyone can complete.

Students try both hand-drawn flipbook animation and stop motion with whatever is lying around, then make one short finished piece.

Suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3.

Requirements

Paper and a pencil

Colouring pencils or paints, if you have them

No previous experience needed

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Jessica Wray

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Jessica is a Year 5 class teacher and curriculum lead in Bristol, with QTS and eleven years in the classroom. She teaches across the primary curriculum and has a particular love of the topic work that ties subjects together — a term on rivers that turns into geography, science, art and some very muddy fieldwork. She writes the kind of lessons that send children home still talking about them.