Bike Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

Nine Minute Ninja.

Time to get my ninja on...

and my clothes.

Art Ninja.

HE SNEEZES

-Dad, you put the kettle on yet?

-No, I'm disinfecting.

I hope you're wearing gloves. That's some strong stuff.

Of course! I've got your lilac gloves with the floral cuffs.

Er, they're not mine. Someone must've left them here.

-TV:

-Hey, you there!

This guy's always on telly.

He thinks he's got the world in the palm of his hand.

Here's something you'll just have to own.

A unique piece of art - it's a picture of your fingerprint.

I was right about the hand.

And worry not! Although it's a massive fingerprint,

you won't need a big hand.

Here's how you make it.

You'll need a tray, some paper and an inkpad.

Now you need to make a fingerprint.

With a photocopier or computer,

enlarge to make the fingerprint fill an A4 page.

Gigantic.

Next, you'll need some PVA glue with a nozzle, preferably.

You must apply the glue to the print.

Ensure you follow the lines of the fingerprint very carefully

to make sure they are all covered.

The glue application may take some time.

Phew!

Grab some glitter and sprinkle liberally over the glued lines.

Once your print is covered with glitter,

shake off the excess glitter onto the tray. Mesmerising!

Shaky-shaky.

Finally, get a frame and attach it to your fingerprint picture

Perfect!

The fingerprint picture!

Available on a hand near you!

Wow. Have to get my hands on one of those.

Art Ninja!

I remember when these guys were just knee-high to a grasshopper.

Do you know what? I'll show you how to make your own.

I think I've got everything I need.

Got my soil, grass seeds, yoghurt pot and tights...and some water.

OK, so a tufty-head is basically some seeds

and soil in the end of some old tights.

Ask your mum sister or auntie, but please ask, or you and me

could both be in trouble.

I'm going to use a mug, like that. Holds it open nicely.

Then, you could put in some seeds.

Now, quite a generous portion, I'd say just over a teaspoon,

cos they're going to grow the hair of the tufty-head.

So, just throw them in like that.

Right, then, quite a generous amount of soil.

Make use it's nicely full, push it down.

OK, then slide it off and make sure it all goes down to the bottom

in a nice big ball like that.

And tie a knot in the end of the tights

to keep all the soil in place...

..like so.

Get your yoghurt pot

and fill it with water - about a third of the way up.

And then, knot first, put your tights full of soil into it,

so all the seeds are at the top.

Then, the water will start to soak its way up the tights,

through the soil and feed the seeds at the top.

And after about two weeks, watering it every day,

left in a sunny place...

It'll look like this!

Looks good and green, but lacks character,

but we'll soon fix that.

You need to get some card and start drawing some eyes and a mouth.

Cool.

Once you've cut them out, you need to stick them to your tufty-head.

I'm using some sticky-tack.

Right about there.

Ah, yeah! Looks awesome, doesn't he?

Right, let's get him back up on that window sill.

All they need now is sunshine.

MUSIC: Bicycle Race by Queen

I've got an idea that will transform your bike into a crazy

mobile animation machine.

Pretty cool, huh?

You can make an awesome mobile bike-wheel animation with

cardboard, some scissors, a bike and a camera.

And you can make this animation in just three ninja moves.

Ninja move number one.

As I'm in a skate park, I'm going to do, well, a skateboarding trick - a kickflip.

So, I'm just going to start by drawing some guide images.

And I'm going to do an animation cycle of ten frames.

I think that's just the right amount of room to go around the wheel.

I've got a bit of old scrap card

and I measured it to make sure it would fit the wheel.

Now, I folded it into tenths, so I've got the right amount of space around the wheel for my ten frames.

This ends up being about that size.

That is a good guide for how much frame space I have to work with,

so I'm going to cut that bit out

and that's how much space I'm going to have.

So, I'm going to draw around that.

These are my templates for my ten frames.

OK, now I'm going to roughly draw my character

on to teach of these templates.

My drawings don't have to be perfect

cos I'm going to cut them out anyway.

If there's loads to cut out, get someone to help you.

I'm thinking, when the board turns over, I'd like it to be

a different colour, just so it gives you the idea of it being 3D.

So, I'm replacing the upside-down skateboards with red card versions.

Ninja move number two.

It's time to attach my frames to my bike wheel

and I'm going to do that with some thick, black tape.

So, I'm attaching my frames to the bike wheel by putting black

tape on one side of the spokes and the frames on the other.

Make sure you take care when you're positioning your frames

and be sure that they're an equal distance apart.

I'm using thin card for this animation and this is because,

if any of the frames fall off, the card is not strong enough

to get caught in the spokes and stop the wheel, so it's safe.

Check out that!

It's looking good even without animating it.

Ninja move number three.

It's time to capture your animation.

You can either put your bike upside-down and crank

the pedals, and shoot in just the right place to get the animation,

or you can do what I'm going to do

and take this mini masterpiece for a spin.

You can't see this through the naked eye,

only through a camera view-finder, so get one of your mates to

video it when you cycle around or crank the wheel yourself.

Simply play it back to see the optical illusion in action.

There you go - an awesome bike-wheel animation.

Pretty easy to pick up.

It's hard to forget.

It's a bit like riding a bike.

Now, you get animating. Imagine what you could do!

Art Ninja!

Here's a real quick art tip -

how to make things look like they're moving really fast.

Now, I'm going to start my drawing with a car cos cars are quick.

Windscreen, couple of wheels, there's the light.

Now I'm going to draw the driver, so here he is in there.

Hands on the wheel, ten and two.

And I'm going to give him some hair and I'm going to do this with zigzag lines going backwards

to show the wind going through his hair.

Now, I'm going to add some action lines behind the car.

So, whichever way your character's travelling,

make sure your action lines are behind.

And this makes it look like it's travelling really fast.

On the wheels, I'm going to add some, too.

But on these, I'm going to put a little curve, just to show that the wheel's going round.

And finally, for extra speed,

I'm going to add a puff of smoke coming out of the back of the car.

There we go - a quick art tip.

CAR ENGINE RUNNING

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Now go to the website and get your ninja on!

Art Ninja!