My Stick Figure Animation Summer Learning Journey Rua Tekau Ma Tahi

Today for Summer Learning Journey we had to make a Stick Figure Animation. I had the idea to make a flipbook but I could not find the right amount of pieces of paper to make one so I used the template of the online one.

I used Google Slides and I thought that 1 second per slide was way too slow. Then I remembered that one day in cyber smart the teacher teaching it, Mrs Torrie, taught us a way to make GIFs out of slides on a site called Talltweets. You put in a slide then choose how long each slide is. I made mine 0.3 for each of my 78 slides.

The first time someone made a flipbook animation was in 1832. Did you know the German word for flipbook - Daumenkino, which translates to "thumb cinema" pretty much explains what it is.

I enjoyed making the animation because it was fun coming up with ideas on what to make my stick man do. I wanted to make people laugh with this and I hope I achieved that! 

Next time I want to make this with funny music in the background to add the funny effect. 

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my GIF:

Stay Sunsmart!

Today for Cybersmart we were learning how to make a GIF on Canva. GIF stands for Generated Image File. We made a GIF about staying sunsmart during these hot days of Summer.

I enjoyed learning about GIFs because it is so fun learning about new stuff! Like, how GIFs can been seen on every type of device and how lots of people use them everyday.

I found it tricky to make it look animated because it had to be lower than 20 seconds. So I made each slide about 0.3 seconds long. It made my whole thing 19 seconds.

Next time I would add another sunsmart rule like play in the shade for it to be more interesting. I would also change the background on some of the slides.

Here is my Gif:

Faith Gif

 Listen to my reflection here.