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Time to get my ninja on. Got my clothes. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
BIRDS TWEETING | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
Atchoo! | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
The thing about being an art ninja is you're always moving. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
They're doing drum practice next door. It's really annoying. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
Oh. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
But it's making me move. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Oh, I can't control it. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
It's triggered something inside of me. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Yeah! Oh, now I'm dad dancing! | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
That's not dad dancing. This is dad dancing. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
Oh, he's so embarrassing! | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
-Hey. -Hi. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
Wahey. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
Cool dance moves. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
What's that? | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
I've heard of dancing on the ceiling but that's ridiculous. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
To make this laid-back animation, you'll need... | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
a tablet or smartphone with animation app... | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
some interesting terrain... | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
and a friend! I'm cheating a little here. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
This is my friend Claire and she's a contemporary dancer. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
And you can put it together in just three ninja moves. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
Ninja move number one. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
It's time to look at our world a little differently | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
cos we aren't going to be animating on our usual plane. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
Look for interesting areas on the ground. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
Things that don't seem exciting from this perspective | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
might be great to animate on. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:57 | |
And remember, you don't need to worry about gravity, cos | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
your character can jump really high, or even fly, | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
cos they're not really in the air. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Ninja move number two. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
Now you've got interesting places to animate, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
it's time to start thinking about your choreography. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
Work with your animation model to work out what you can do. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
This is where my model really comes into her own. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
Ninja move number three... | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
It's time to start shooting. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:28 | |
So what I've done is I've attached my smartphone with animation app | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
to this fun little rig here. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:33 | |
Now, if you don't have fancy rigs like me, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
you can simply use a selfie stick. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
-OK. We've danced around the park... -Mm-hmm. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
..we've shot all our frames | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
and I've added some cool sound effects. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
So, I think it's time to take a look at our mini masterpiece. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
I think you've got some ninja dance moves. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
Here's a quick art tip of how to drop a character jumping. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
Got a diving board in place already. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
He's going to be springing off of that. I'll start with his head. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
Needs to be lent back a little bit cos he's jumping through the air. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
Eyes looking forward. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
Needs to be pretty pleased with himself. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:50 | |
That's not important for jumping, but I like him to be happy. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
His hair's going to be blown back. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
Cos he's jumping through the wind. Now his body. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
I'm going to put his arms up diagonally, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
coming out from his shoulders. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
He's throwing his weight up in the air. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
And some shorts. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
And I want his front foot facing up, and his back foot facing down. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
He's just sprung away from it. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
Put a couple of wobble lines around him, to show the action, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
and then some speed lines coming away from his back, showing | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
the direction that he's jumping in. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:32 | |
There we go. Quick art tip. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
Come on. Jump to it, and have a go yourself. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
The art ninja zoetrope. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
Every film or TV show you've ever watched | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
is made up of individual pictures speeding by in quick succession. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
A zoetrope is just an early version of that. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
So, take your paper plate. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
Now, I've painted mine black. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
And, with a bit of modelling clay to protect the table, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
poke a hole through the centre with a pencil. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
With a pair of scissors, just cut a simple little X. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Now, that's going to work as a cradle for a marble. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
It's going to help the zoetrope spin. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
And I'm going to hold that in place with some sticky tape. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
Cool. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:31 | |
Now, take a long sheet of black card, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
long enough to fit around the outside of your plate. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
Now, I'm going to cut 12 slot into it, equal distances apart. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
And I'm going to mark out where I'm going to make the cuts. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
I think they're going to be eight centimetres deep, | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
and they're going to be about five millimetres in width. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
With some scissors, carefully cut those slots out. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
Now go back along and just cut-off all the waste bits you left behind. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
Now these slots are going to be what I watch the animation through. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
They're little viewfinders. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
Now I just stick that round the outside of the paper plate | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
with a little bit of double sided sticky tape. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
You can use glue or normal sticky tape. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
Just run that among the bottom. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
And I'm going to put a little bit on the edge here as well, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
to stick it together where it overlaps. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
Just going to prepare my plate by rolling over the sides, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
so I've got a nice surface to stick the double-sided sticky tape to. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
Right, peel off the backing of my double-sided sticky tape. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
Just going to roll the plate along and anywhere where it needs a | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
little more stick, I'm going to use some sticky tape to hold it down. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
Just where it overlaps. There you go. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
So, the zoetrope is a bit like a drum, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
and when you place a sequence of photographs or images on the inside | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
and spin it, they animate in smooth motion. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
So I need to draw my sequence of images. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
I'm going to grab a long piece of white card with a little bit | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
of overlap so it fits nicely on the inside of the drum. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
Right. So now I need to draw my 12 pictures. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
Equal distances apart, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
so they line-up with the slots on the zoetrope. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
I'm going to drop someone dancing! | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
As you can see, I draw my figure in a different position each time | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
so it animates nicely. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
But so it flows, I need to return it to the starting position. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
The word "zoetrope" derives from the Greek word meaning | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
"life turning". | 0:07:48 | 0:07:49 | |
There we are. My last frame is nearly at my starting position. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
That should animate well. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
So I've got my 12 pictures, and my 12 slots on the zoetrope. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
And I'm going to pop them in and make them dance. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Now, give it a spin | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
and watch that tiny dancer spin across the dance floor. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
MUSIC: Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) by Ironik ft Chipmunk and Elton John | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
It's better than my dancing. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
But not nearly as good as Dad's! | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
You don't have to do a dancer. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
You can make your figure do whatever you like. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
This one's jumping! | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Or a dog going for walkies. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
Now go to the website | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
and get your ninja on. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
Art ninja! | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 |