Part 4: Making Your First Animation

Before beginning this project you may want to view some examples .

Part 1: What is an animation??

Part 2: Uses of Animations

Part 3. Simple Animations Effects

A simple animation really only has two steps. The first step is to make some cells (the individual pictures). You can use any computer drawing program to do this. You must make all of the cells the same size so use a program that lets you make pictures the size you want. For this project we will use "Paintbrush". The second step is to put these pictures into an animation program (like GIF Construction set) so that they flip one after the other.

Animation Project Choices

Click on the project that you want to do.

PROJECT 1: Changing Colors- Make the words turn different colors.

PROJECT 2: Transition- make the letters fade to nothing and then come back.

PROJECT 3: Zoom!!- make a car moves across the screen.

PROJECT 4: Twinkle- make the light of a candle glow.

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