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Year 3 - Art and design

Plan a monster animation

Monsters: sculpture and digital design

Unit Summary

This design and make unit has links with the creative industries. Pupils will identify and study monsters in film and paintings, before realising their own imaginative concepts into models and animation.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to plan a monster animation.

Key Notes

  • Stop motion is a form of animation involving sequential photography of still objects.
  • Storyboarding and sketching helps in visualising and planning the sequence of events in an animation.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • animation: a series of drawings or images that are shown quickly one after another to create the illusion of movement
  • storyboard: a sequence of drawings that represent the shots planned for a movie or animation
  • sketch: a quick, simple drawing that does not have many details

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may think that storyboards need to be perfect and spend more time on the details of the drawing as opposed to thinking about the sequence of events of their animation.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Stop motion is a form of animation involving sequential photography of still objects. Storyboarding and sketching helps in visualising and planning the sequence of events in an animation.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'animation'

a series of drawings or images that are shown quickly one after another to create the illusion of movement.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils may think that storyboards need to be perfect and spend more time on the details of the drawing as opposed to thinking about the sequence of events of their animation. Correction: Remind children that storyboards are rough sketches that help plan the sequence of the animation.

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