Message Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

GONG CLANGS

It's a new day.

Better get my ninja on.

And my clothes!

Aw... Ooh!

KNOCK AT DOOR

-Hi, Dad!

-Hi, Ricky!

-What you doing?

-Your mum's entered us in the Family World Cup.

It's a competition to find the best footballing family in the country.

It's tomorrow and we're going to win!

We? Don't you remember? I'm terrible at football!

# Here we go, here we go, here we go! #

-CRASH! MAN:

-Oi! That's my greenhouse!

And if we win the family World Cup, we get to party with Jamie Vardy.

He's the host, and if we do win, we win £1,000!

Now you're talking! I'll get me boots! On the head, Dad!

CRASH!

# Art Ninja. #

I always knew I'd grow up to be an art ninja.

The writing was on the wall. Well, on this...

It's the Art Ninja graffiti pin board!

I've got a couple of large pieces of card, both the same size.

I'm going to stick them together with a bit of PVA glue.

Doesn't need to be neat here, just needs to be sticky.

Now, if you're doing this at home, you need to put newspaper down

to protect your table.

But my art table is MADE for this kind of action.

And the reason I'm doubling up the card is so it's thick enough

to stick pins to.

Now, as I'm going to hang this up, I need to make some holes

so I can put some string through it. Get a pencil to poke the hole

and a bit of modelling clay to protect the table.

I'm punching four holes, two on each side.

One there and one there.

One there and one there.

Just going to cut a length of string.

Snip that off, thread that through.

And then tie it to itself.

And I'm going to do the same on the other side.

Now, that bit's done, I've got myself a big dish here.

Some white paint.

Using a sponge, I'm just going to dab on the paint.

And this white is going to be the mortar that you'll be able

to see through between the bricks.

I'm just dabbing it on to get a nice texture.

I want it to look kind of rough.

While that's drying, I'm going to make my bricks.

So, I've got a couple of pieces of pre-cut card.

I'm going to squeeze out a little bit of brown paint,

get my sponge.

I'm going to use the same technique with these bits of cardboard.

Just dabbing it on like this.

Do the same to the other one.

Now, as bricks come in lots of different colours and tones,

I'm going to make this one slightly darker

and add a little bit of black.

Now, we're going to add a couple of accents,

some slightly darker areas on it.

You can get some really nice effects layering up different colours.

But if I'm going to make a wall I'm going to need a ton of these,

so I'll ninja some more...

Sweet! That's a good amount of bricks.

Now, with the PVA glue, I'm going to start sticking them on.

I'm putting this one down here with a little bit of a gap in between

cos that's of course the mortar showing through.

Don't worry if you get a bit of PVA glue on the front of the bricks

cos of course it dries clear.

I'm sticking these down in a brickwork pattern.

The bricks are offset.

I'm also mixing up different colours

to make it look like an authentic wall.

I'm just letting them overhang the edges and when it's finished,

it will look like a piece of wall has been removed.

Right, I think that's looking really good!

It's time for me to give it my own personal tag.

We've got some nice coloured paints here.

Here's some shapes that I cut out from sponge

and I'm going to paint my name, but on your wall,

you can do whatever you like.

I'm going to start with a purple.

These tapered ends of the sponges kind of make it look like

you lift away the spray can at the end.

And when I change letters, I'm going to change colours.

I'm using a different colour for each letter

but you can use any colours you like.

Getting creative with my colours.

Yeah, looking good!

Now, I want something with a similar theme to hold my pens,

so I'm going to make a spray can.

So, for that, I've got an old gravy pot and I've cut the top off

an old drinks top here.

I'm just going to stuff it with a bit of newspaper.

This is going to help it stick and not slide around

as I glue it to the lid of my gravy pot.

I'm going to stick it on and I'm using strong glue.

And now, for some finishing touches, I'm going to use my ninja skills.

So, I've wrapped the gravy tube in orange, the top's painted silver,

like a real spray can, and I've added an Art Ninja sticker.

On the back I've put a little bit of hook and loop tape,

sticky side out here, so I can stick it to my wall.

That means I can pop it off...

but it's got a place it'll always stick back on.

And now I can stick in my pens and my pencils.

There we go. I've always said I've had good board skills

but now I've swapped the skateboard for a pin board!

Now to add some pictures.

Ah, there's one of Gavin

when he got set on fire by our animation dragon.

Michelle on her deckchair.

And our clown juice art. I think that looks awesome.

Now all I need to do is hang it up.

There are all kinds of ways to personalise your pin board.

How about this wrecking ball wall?

The signs had always been there that I'd have ninja skills.

And here's some more signs.

Guys, isn't it nice to have a little walk around Bristol at night-time?

-See all those landmarks lit up beautifully?

-Yeah!

-Yeah!

Yeah, the...pffft... the path in the sky?

The...you know, the...erm...

The thingy thing?

Guys, guys, don't worry, I've got your back.

Get a load of my light painting sign animation.

Now, you won't be lost in the dark with this animation

and to make it, you'll need a camera that shoots long exposures,

a tablet or smartphone, a posse of friends...

..and a lovely lit-up building at night.

And you can put it together in just three ninja moves.

Ninja move number one...

You need to decide what building you're going to make a sign for

and you need to make your sign. So, I'm doing

the Clifton Suspension Bridge, cos it is a Bristol icon

and it is well dench. And just to make sure I spell it all right,

I've got it written down on a little bit of paper here

cos spelling is not my strong suit.

Now you need to colour it in.

Doesn't need to be coloured in super perfect

cos it's going to be quite blurry when you light paint with it later.

Now I need to colour around all the letters carefully with a dark pen.

Now, the reason I'm colouring around all the letters in a black pen

is cos black doesn't show up when you light paint.

Ninja move number two...

So, now I need to film it on my smartphone

and move along with this black bit of card

with a little slit cut in it.

And the black won't show up in the light paint later.

Mind your fingers.

Ninja move number three...

Now it's time to start shooting, so one person needs to be ready to hold

the shutter open and somebody else needs to carefully play back

the video on the smartphone and move it round perfectly,

printing the sign in the air.

Once you've done that, you need to reposition the camera around

a little bit of an angle, so it feels like you're moving round

your landmark. It just gives it a more dynamic look

and if you take about 12 frames, you can bounce backwards and forwards

to make a cool animation. OK, we've shot all of our frames

and we've consolidated them into an animation.

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

You don't have to do landmarks, you can do your friend's name

and just make animations of each other.

Now go to the website and get YOUR ninja on.

Art Ninja!