Two Way Dream Reflection

I am Really excited and proud of myself for figuring out how to make a stop motion animation video on Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.

I Have always thought of my art work as part of a fantasy world. It was exciting to breathe life into this world though animation technology. 

I gave my paintings movements by merging them together with the clone stamp tool or the lasso tool. I also stretched them with filter liquify,played with the band aid and image adjustments. 

These sort of technique is also amazing for me to design new compositions to paint.  I believe every Frame of this video is beautiful. I did run into some problems making this. For instance, each composition sequence I named a random title, but I should have done them alphabetically. When I imported the files onto after effect, they got out of order. For this project, I think the cyclical and nonsensical narrative works. However, for future animations I will be carful to order them alphabetically. 

Impact 25 Responses

Here are some of the many responses I received when I shared my project back with its participants ! Madison and I created quite a lovely archive of inspirational videos. If I were to do this project again, I would like to do a more game like archive on scratch. 

Two Way Dream

Electrical Circuits Presentation Slides

Reflections

At the beginning of the semester , I stated that my learning objectives were to learn scanology art, animation, 3d printing,  and  how to teach media projects in art class. This has been  quite an ambitious list of objectives to tackle. I feel very content that I learned some of what I set out to do, while some other things on my lists (such as 3d printing) need more time. Ultimately though , I learned a lot more than what was on my  initial learning goal list. 

A good life lesson is that  if you take initiative you can learn/ do anything ! This is especially true, when you have a maker space full of resources and good teachers. I am really proud of my new book making skills ! I took the laser cutting project as an opportunity to learn book binding. What I really enjoyed about this class is that I had the freedom to learn what I wanted to learn. Coincidentally, in the fourth grade class I was observing , the teacher taught her students how to make origami books. There was an exceptionally creative girl named Aurora, who made origami in her origami books. I had her teach me, and then further developed the process.  I will certainly bring book making into the art classroom. 

As for my goals, I feel very confident in making and teaching scanology art.In my art practice, I am very interested in natural world. I love the ways that leaves and shells look when they are scanned... lots of dreamy textures and shadows. 

Here is also a book I made that combines scanology and book making. This could be an other lesson plan to write. I will certainly combine dying arts like bookmaking and sewing, and combine them with technology. It feels very important to breathe life back into these historical processes. 


My second goal, animation, took a lot of perseverance. Though, I am happy to say that my hard work has payed off. Over the course  of the semester, I have made three types of stop motion animation. I have always wanted to learn this skill, so I am very pleased with myself! The first animation I made with hand made materials and a stop motion app on my cell phone called Stop Motion Studio.  My second video, I made in Dr, Burton's class with the help of some Tech Savy fourth graders. We made this with an app on the ipad and used collaged paper. My third stop motion, has been the most trying of them all ! I wanted to combine all my paintings together and bring life to them. I have always thought of my paintings as a fantasy world, and this is especially true in my animation. I used photoshop and After Effect for this feat. 

My third goal was 3d printing. I didn't quite complete my goal, but I got about halfway there. I learned how to model things to print and how to download things on thingiverse. I came up with some neat designs ! My next step, is actually printing them. I do plan on doing this next semester. 

My fourth goal was to learn how to incorporate technology in the art classroom. I certainly accomplished this goal. I learned lots of great platforms and knowledge to share with my future students. For instance, I really loved tinkered. Scratch I still need to play with more to confidently teach my students, but I know I can get there. I feel pretty confident wiht a basic circuit, and I can incorporate that into some art projects. Blogger is also a great resource for my students to use. It is great to have the google doc of al our lessons together to use as a reference. I learned a lot in this course, but I also feel like I just scratched the surface. 

I am excited to incorporate new technologies as well as old crafts into my art classroom. As we move forward, there are more and more digital skills that are students must learn to be successful in society. I know that the art classroom is a great place for my future students to learn and practice technological skills in a creative and fun way.  Maker culture is important because students will know that they can figure anything out ! 

Stop Motion Experiments

Circuit

 1) light up  the art classroom with fireflies ! It is made with a simple series circuit composed with a battery, copper tape, and a led light. 

2)Children can use electronics in school to learn very interesting things, so much more than just spelling and counting. For instance, students can play a fun space game that teaches them about the gravity of the sun and the explosion of stars (Twenty Things to do with a computer , Papert and Solomon, 13). This sort of thing can be brought into the art classroom by teaching students scratch, and allowing them to design their own educational game.  

I was also very impressed with the turtle software that creates shapes and spirals.. I am not quite sure how it works, but I would love to incorporate the spirit of exploring advanced geometry in my art class room with the computer. I will use adobe software such as photoshop and illustrator to let my students design complex geometric compositions.  

Tinker Cad

I had a lot of fun playing with Tinkercad. I drew this grid with the drawing tool ,and then rotated it and merged it together. In sculpture, I also imported a heart and ring from thingiverse, a really cool sharing site ! I look forward to 3d printing this.