Deep Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

Time to get my ninja on.

Got my clothes.

I know. I'll give Sarah a call.

Sorry, I'm a bit busy today, Ricky.

I could always try my Dad. I'll give him a call.

Hey, Dad.

HIGH-PITCHED JABBERING

I was wondering if you'd...

OK, bye.

I'm starting to feel really alone today.

There's no-one around.

SAD VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYS

Gav, can you cut that out, please? Go and practise somewhere else.

I thought you were lonely!

I'm not that lonely!

I'll go and riff somewhere else then.

Gavin's talents run deep

and here's a quick art tip that'll add depth to your work.

I'm going to start by drawing a horizon line.

And I'm going to draw some little mountains over this side,

as they're far in the distance.

Maybe some snow on top. And a sun up here.

The further things are away, the smaller they are, so even though

the mountains are huge, they're quite small in the distance.

And I'm going to draw some animals just below the horizon line.

I'm making this sheep quite big at the front of the picture,

so it appears near to us, and I'm going to draw another sheep

midway between the first sheep and the mountains.

As things move backwards, they get closer to the horizon line.

And I'm going to do some little shrubs of grass.

Bigger at the front,

getting smaller to the back.

There. The different-sized objects have given my picture depth.

There's a quick art tip.

See what EWE can do.

Ewe, get it? A female sheep.

This is Bristol Harbour,

an amazing place full of history.

Many spectacular sea vessels were built and launched here.

FOGHORN

Oh, excuse me!

Hey, here's one now!

Hey, my mistake! It's just an animation.

An awesome one.

All you need is stiff plastic or acetate,

some pens that write on acetate and a phone or tablet.

# Three of me... #

There's some really good animation apps you can find online.

Have a little look around, find one you like, find one that's

highly-rated, and just get used to one and make it your thing.

My phone's really red! So red!

Here's how to work it in just three ninja moves.

Ninja move number one.

Draw your frames on the acetate.

So I'm doing a submarine.

Look over at the background,

just so you can line up where your object's going to appear.

And then a good thing to do is to colour it in in white

because then it's opaque and really sticks up against the background.

Ninja move number two.

I've got lots of pieces of acetate.

Now, I'm not going to use a different piece of acetate

for every picture, but I am going to use two separate ones.

The reason we use a couple of bits is

so you can use your old frame as a guide to start drawing the next one.

# Pens, pens, pens Drawing on stuff with pens. #

There we go, so you can see the one from before.

Ninja move number three.

Get your phone out, line it up with the river

or whatever you're using for it to interact with, and take a snap.

Keep doing your ninja steps.

So draw the frame of your animation on the acetate,

take a picture, trace your next frame using the old

one as a guide, take another picture,

and repeat.

Keep doing your ninja steps

until all the frames of your animation are done.

Once you've taken all your frames, using your animation app,

compile them into a movie.

Compiling...

Now I think it's time for the big reveal.

Here comes a submarine. Here we go, it's made berth at Bristol Harbour.

Hang on. What's this?

Oh, a sea monster!

I'd say that is a mini masterpiece.

Have a go yourself.

Get outside and see what you can do with your awesome acetate animation.

-BOTH:

-Ricky! What can you make with this?

So what have you got for me today?

A fleece blanket.

Well, it's pretty big and blue, like an ocean.

Gives me an idea. In fact, I've got some fleece laying around.

I'll just go and grab some.

I've got some different shapes

that I've cut out from an old fleece and a bit of felt

and I'm going to use them to make a protective case for a tablet

that'll look like it's being eaten by a shark.

I like to call it a TERROR-byte.

Little computer joke for you there.

I've cut two pieces of material the same size as my tablet -

one rectangular, and one with a curve in the end.

I'll sew these pieces together later.

Now let's make it look like a shark.

I'm going to stick down the shark's belly using fabric glue.

Nice one. Like that.

And then I've got these fins for the side, and these two.

We're going to put these lighter bits of felt on.

So do you guys have any pets or anything?

-I'm not saying that a shark's a good pet.

-I've got a cat.

OK, I'm just going to start gluing on the red bit for the mouth.

And I measured these against the flap at the top

to make sure they fit.

And the other bit's going to go there.

Do you guys like doing art?

Yeah. Mostly drawing.

What kind of things do you like to draw?

Battle scenes, giants and stuff like that.

I like to draw a Viking.

Awesome. A bit like Eric the Red?

I'm just going to stick some teeth on

cos what's a shark without teeth?

For the top layer of teeth,

I'm going to put the glue straight on to the mouth,

so I can get the teeth hanging over the edge nice.

So the mouth and that's looking pretty good.

I think it's time to put on a face.

I've cut out some different shapes here to make some eyes.

I think this shark should be quite happy, but maybe he's hungry.

So he's got a mean face on so he can eat the tablet.

Don't worry too much about getting the fabric glue everywhere

cos it'll just dry out invisible.

Now I'm just going to put on some gills.

Going to start sewing now.

I've tied a knot in the end so that it won't go all the way through.

I'm using blanket stitch.

You go round and you go over again, so you see we've gone

back on ourselves and back in the same way we did first time round.

And when you have this loop,

put our needle back through,

pointing in the opposite way to the way we were stitching,

and then we pull it tight.

I've also doubled up the thread,

so it holds the case together nice and tightly.

Going to sew on these fins.

I'm putting some loops in the last stitch, so I can tie it off.

All that's left now is the dorsal fin,

so I just stick that on the back.

OK, guys, do you want to see it?

-Yeah!

-Right, here we go.

Rawr!

-Awesome!

-Wicked!

I think that is APP-solutely brilliant.

So, guys, what would you give it out of ten?

Four? Just four each?

No, it's 44!

44 out of ten! That's not even possible.

What a great score.

Thanks very much, guys. Cheers for all your help.

-Have a good day, yeah? Bye-bye.

-Bye.

-Bye.

Well, that's covered that one. You can make any animal.

Let your imagination go wild.

Hey, you there!

Ugh, not him again.

Too busy to shift stubborn stains?

Er, yeah?

You need Flip Flop Mop!

Here's how you make it.

First you need an old flip flop,

and a mop head like this.

Insert the flip-flop into the mop head.

Next, you'll need a needle and thread.

Fold the fabric over the flip-flop and sew

it into place around the thong part of the aforementioned footwear.

Now repeat the process with the other flip-flop in the pair.

You will be the proud owner of

Flip-flop Mops!

Not available in the shops.

Now go to the website and get your ninja on.

Art ninja!