Sick Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

Time to get my ninja on,

and my clothes.

Ya!

SWOOSH

DING

SWOOSH

CLANG

-KNOCK AT DOOR Hi, Ricky.

-Hi, Dad.

Mum's really worried about you.

-I know, she's still on the phone.

-VOICE SQUEAKS ON PHONE

She's sent me around with a hot water bottle.

I've got some tissues for you as well.

Whoa, you want to keep your distance.

I don't want you to catch my cold. Can you throw me a tissue?

Oh, I can't open them.

-Can you help me, please?

-Yeah, sure.

A-choo!

A-choo!

Wow, that sneeze went into Dad's beard.

I bet he wishes he could do this,

but he can't - it's an amazing animation.

So, to make this awesome animation, all you're going to need is

some wool or thread, some clippers, a tablet, a pen and paper,

and a beardy friend who's willing to be shaved.

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

'Ninja move number one.'

I'm going to start by drawing myself some storyboards.

The whole point of doing them is to plan out what you're going to do.

I reckon you'll have, like, your hand up there,

and I think we'll cut as you start pulling and go to

a nice, sort of, head-on shot, as your beard unravels.

When was the last time you actually took all your beard off?

-About a year ago.

-Are you feeling confident?

-I love it.

I'm feeling confident. Right, well, let's do it.

'Ninja move number two.'

As Dan's going to be our animation model,

it's really important that he stays really still in between our frames.

Isn't that right, Dan?

I said to stay still.

Perfect.

Then, you have to get a bit of wool

or whatever you're using, and hide it inside the beard.

We're going to animate Dan coming in and pulling this thread out.

We're going to have it go across his face, and we're going to shave

the space behind it, to make it look like the beard's unravelling.

CLIPPERS BUZZ

If you're going to be using clippers,

it's probably a good idea that you get some adult supervision.

It's OK for us cos we're, believe it or not, both adults.

'Ninja move number three.'

As your model's beard unravels,

you need to capture all your frames on your tablet device.

I'm using a free animation app.

Just search around and find one that you like.

If I look at my storyboard, my first shot is

kind of at three-quarters on, at the side of Dan's face.

CLIPPERS BUZZ

'Make sure you only shave a willing family member or friend,

'otherwise you and me will both be in a hairy situation.'

CLIPPERS BUZZ

So, now, it's to that point, I think.

CLIPPERS BUZZ

I think it's time for us to take a look at our new masterpiece.

HAIR RIPS

Ow!

Beardy-weirdy.

-Blowing your nose...

-FOGHORN HONKS

SNOT fun, is it?

And I've got some art that can help you with that.

-Art Ninja.

-The Art Ninja nose-shaped tissue dispenser.

It's great and I'm SNOT kidding.

I've got a big piece of cardboard

and I'm going to draw around a tissue box.

I'm going to roll it up onto its end, towards me.

'Now, I'm going to draw around the edges of three sides.'

And then, on the edges here,

I'm going to draw the profile of a nose, nice and big.

It is important to make these match, so once you've cut it out,

you can fold it in half and make sure they're symmetrical.

Then, I'm going to draw around my box here,

and make a strip of card 1½ times the length of the tissue box.

'There looks about half again.'

Now, I'm going to cut them out.

Snippy-snippy.

And then, you just score along these lines,

and I'm going to use a ruler for that.

It's a bit safer than using scissors.

'I'm scoring so I can fold

'these parts of cardboard back more easily.'

Turn it over.

Just see if the tissue box fits inside.

There we go, perfect.

You need to have a little bit of wiggle room, so you can take it out.

Now, this strip is going to be the bridge of the nose,

and the underside here.

And what have you got here? Nostrils,

so we need to cut some holes in this strip. Just a couple of ovals.

If you've got square nostrils, by all means, draw square ones.

'Or even triangular.'

Now, I'm going to put a bit of clay behind them,

and use a pencil to make a hole so I can get my scissors in there.

Now, I can start taping it together.

That's just going to hold it together

while we put the bridge on.

OK, it's shaping up pretty well.

Now, I'm going to stick some balls of newspaper on either side,

so this looks more like a nose.

There we go.

Right, I'm going to cover it in a couple of layers of papier-mache,

so I've got a bowl of PVA glue and water mix -

two parts glue, one part water - and a nice pile of newspaper.

Papier-mache-ing...quite messy,

so you should probably put some extra newspaper down first.

OK, good. Looking nice and covered.

Now, if you're doing this at home, you'll need to wait for it to dry,

but I'm going to use my ninja skills.

SWOOSH

Great, papier-mache's dry. It's nice and hard.

Now, I'm going to do my nose,

so I have the right colour of paint here.

Mix up some colours to get the skin tone right for you.

SQUELCH AND SWOOSH

Great, that's all covered.

Now, you'll need to wait for yours to dry, but I wait for nothing -

-I'm the Art Ninja.

-SWOOSH

Oh, look at that. It took so long to dry, it's grown a moustache.

I've also added some detail here, just to accentuate the nostrils,

and I've pierced a hole in the back

and put a bit of string to hang it up.

Now, let's slide in our tissues.

SNEEZY does it.

Oh, yeah.

SNOT bad, that.

Ha-ha, said snot again.

A-choo!

Oh...

FOGHORN HONKS

The nose-shaped tissue dispenser - have a blow at it today!

I mean, go.

SQUELCH 'Hey, you there.'

-RICKY SIGHS

-This guy makes me sick.

Ever wanted to make fake sick?

-Seriously?

-Seriously.

You can produce puke without all that yucky muck.

'Here's how you make it.

'First, you need a bowl,

'two packets of soup - minestrone and chicken are good.

'Pour the soup mixtures into the bowl.

'Get a jug of water.

'Pour a small amount into the bowl, and stir,

'keeping the mixture thick.

'Then, you need to add a generous amount of PVA glue,

'to make it sticky.

'Stir well with a spoon, and add more water if necessary.

'Grab a piece of canvas or thick paper.

'Pour the mixture onto the canvas, and use the spoon...

SQUELCH '...to spread the mixture around,

'to make a more splattered effect.

DING 'Leave it to dry overnight.'

Fake sick - give it a whirl.

So good, you'll hurl!

Ha, that fake sick is sick.

Now, go to the website and get YOUR ninja on.

Art Ninja!