Skate Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

Time to get my Ninja on.

And my clothes.

BEEPING

Oh, Matt and Rich are already at the beach.

BEEPING

Oh, that's Sarah. She's there too.

I need to get a wiggle on. But where are my lucky trunks?

BEEPING Hang on.

Oh, what?! Gavin's at the beach as well.

I bet everyone's having loads of fun.

But I can't go cos I haven't got my lucky trunks.

Hey, you there.

This guy is so annoying!

Feeling stressed?

Funny you should say that.

You need the do-not-stress-ball

to squeeze your troubled mind.

I feel so relaxed!

'Here's how you make it.

'You need some clingfilm...

'..half a cup of rice...

'..then pour it into the clingfilm and wrap it up nice and tight.

'Voila. Now you need two different-coloured balloons...

'..and some scissors.

'Cut off the open ends of each balloon.

'Snippy.

'Stretch one balloon over the top

'and pull it all around until the rice is nearly covered.

'With the rice end facing up,

'take the other balloon

'and stretch it over the top.

'Now you need a black and a white marker pen.

'Use these to draw an interesting face on your bowl.

'Here's one amusing example of what you could do. Ha-ha!'

The do-not-stress-ball.

I want one. I need one now!

Where do I get one?

Not available in the shops.

-Or anywhere. Ha-ha-ha.

-Oh!

I'm doing a skateboarding trick using Andre as a skateboard.

Rich is going to be taking pictures on the camera

using a fish-eye lens so he can take super-wide shots.

-Are you ready, Andre?

-Ready!

-Are you happy and comfortable, Andre?

-Yes.

-Are you ready to shred?

-Let's do this!

We're going to move Andre along each time we take a picture or a frame.

When all the frames are played together,

it'll look like I'm skating on Andre.

To create a cool skateboarding stunt,

it'll involve Andre flying through the air.

-Can you fly through the air, buddy?

-I don't think so.

To do this we're going to be using chromakey, or green screen,

to hold us in the air while the frame is recorded.

Now we know what we're going to do, we need to get on with it.

Cut to time-lapse. 'Remember, this kind of animation can be tricky

'so you might need some extra help, and also...'

Animation is thirsty work

so make sure you take plenty of breaks.

OK. We've got all the shots so it's time to do some editing.

'There's loads of free editing apps, like I'm using,

'available online for your PC or tablet.'

I've taken out the green boxes, added some sound effects,

and I think it's time to take a look at our mini masterpiece.

-Are you ready, Andre?

-Let's do it.

It looks amazing.

Look at my landing!

-Oh!

-Oh!

-BOTH: Oh!

-That looks so rad.

Look what I found!

Wow, loads of money!

Maybe I don't need those lucky trunks after all.

You know what? I could use this money to buy a new wallet.

This one's seen better days.

Or maybe...I could make one.

I'm going to use a nice, big envelope, self-sealing one.

I'm going to start by folding it in half.

Always remember to keep the sticky side of the tab face up.

And in half again. And then open it up

and fold it in half lengthways.

Then you need to get a pair of scissors and cut a triangle in here,

so between the middle crease and your first one.

About there. And a centimetre from this crease, just join them up.

Get rid of that bit. Now open it up.

This triangle is going to help the whole wallet fold.

Then separate the two layers, cut a little bit up here to

the first crease and then out to the edge of the envelope.

You need to do that on each of these creases here.

OK. Now open those two flaps up and you're going to turn

these into triangle tabs that will help stick the wallet together.

Triangle off in that direction. There.

And copy that the other side. One bit there.

Now I'm going to fold this bit in half and then back on itself there,

and I'm going to sticky tape these two flaps down.

Like that. And then fold it up to the top.

And this is where the self-sealing envelope comes into play,

so take this bit off. Open up the wallet, like so,

and then just fold that bit inside and stick it to itself.

Fold it in half and you've got yourself a little wallet.

Hi, I'm the artist, Piet Mondrian.

My art was designed to be in harmony with nature,

using lots of horizontal and vertical lines.

Here is one of my famous pictures.

I influenced lots of design in the '60s, from fashion to furniture.

Anyway, he's inspired me.

I think I'll decorate my wallet in the style of Mondrian.

I'm going to use some black tape, cut into strips, to make the black lines.

There you go.

Any loose bits that come over the end I'm just going to snip them off.

Keeping these lines nice and parallel to the edges of the wallet

so it creates lots of boxes and rectangles.

'That was Mondrian's style but you

'can make your lines go in any direction.'

One bit there just to break up that box.

And once you've done one side it's time to turn it over

and do some more on the inside.

A last little line, I reckon.

Right. Now it's time for me to add some colour

and I'm going to use bold primary colours, just like Mondrian did.

So I'm going to start with red.

Just little splashes of colour. And a bit of blue.

The great thing about this is,

it doesn't matter if you go over the edge.

You've got these nice, big borders to save you. And a bit of yellow.

And once you've coloured the front, turn it over

and put some colour on the back.

There we are. All done.

I'm pretty happy with that.

-What do you think, Mondrian?

-Can you lend me a fiver?

What do you think I am, made of money?

Now go to the website and get your Ninja on.

Art Ninja!