Resources for Participants

Your animation ideas are all here!  Some of these effects are easy to achieve, while other films in this collection are the culmination of countless hours spent moving clay figures and tiny props.  What’s important is that in every clip there is inspiration for teaching and...

When I began teaching Visual Art, animation was a subject that was taught by a technology teacher at our school – it was pretty specialised stuff. The intricacies of using the massive animation suites and high-end programs, combined with the fact that our art rooms...

” It’s easy to think of works of art as direct descendents of their maker. We look at “The Starry Night” and we think of van Gogh, hunched over his easel, alone in his room. We go to the opera and think that Natalie Dessay sang a beautiful aria, but...

Sesame Street is beloved by generations… use these snippets as teaching tools and talking points for portraiture, space, etc.       A Portrait of Bert Big Bird meets Chuck Close Positive and Negative Space And if you liked this post, check out our Sesame...

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“Do you think you’re creative?” Ask this question of a group of second-graders, and about 95 percent of them will answer “Yes.” Three years later, when the kids are in fifth grade, that proportion will drop to 50 percent—and by the time they’re seniors in high school, it’s...

The creative process, that is, the journey taken from those initial sketchy ideas through to resolution, can be long and hard. Interestingly, when this process is reflected upon it often turns out that that journey was as valuable as the destination. Sometimes more so. The end...

Who are the leading artists using iPads to create innovative work? Check out this article, Digital Artists Create Masterpieces by Alex Thomas to see some of their work, created by touch. “Finger painting is no longer just for kids. There is a growing community of online...

” David Hockney may be 74 years old, but that doesn’t mean he can’t learn some new tricks… It’s a new direction for Hockney, and the artist admits he didn’t take to the Apple device quickly. “It took me awhile to realize it’s quite...