Animate3D

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Why Animation and 3D Printing
Stop motion animation is a powerful tool for students to show their knowledge, skills and understandings across the curriculum. If you want to become good at something, teach it to someone else. Combine animation with 3D Printing and students can stretch the boundaries of critical thinking in a classroom setting.
If you’ve never tried stop motion animation then give it a go.Its great fun and never been easier with the award-winning Ogobild animation set. Activate the 4Cs, skills for 21st Century learning in your class. Animate+3D printing is an ideal way to to do this and can also be used as an introduction to Project Based Learning in primary schools.

The Four Cs (YouTube)
Collaboration Is the process of two or more students working together to realize shared goals, like cooperation.

Communication Nonverbal including body language,
Eye contact and facial expressions. Verbal or spoken communication
Written including processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, gestures, and evaluating.
Digital-Age Literacy - technologically-driven.

Critical Thinking Making well thought out judgments as a guide to your belief and actions through actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.

Creativity Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow something valuable is formed, either new or improved.
Be imaginatively creative, generate an idea as well as find creative ways to communicate that idea

Our first animation!

Examples of Animation Curriculum Links - click on the picture to download the full document

Starter Animation Kits Hue or Ogobild?

The Hue Animation Studio (HUEKIT1) combines user friendly animation software with the award winning Hue camera. It contains everything you need to make your very own stop motion animation movies. The kit includes the Animation Software, the HUE Camera, a user guide, and 1.8m USB cable. The HUE camera is a multipurpose camera and can be used for stop motion animation, video recording, document imaging, visualiser and video chat.
Use HUE visualisers for:

Lessons on an interactive whiteboard
Student presentations
An alternative to a basic microscope
Stop motion animation
Distance learning
Video journals (vlogging)
Video chat with other schools
Video conferencing

Ogobild with Animate It! Express software an all-in-one kit for any child to start learning how to create their own stop motion animated movies. It teaches students the basics of stop-motion animation and allows kids to make their own animated movies with Animate It! Express software.

Ogobild:

kits have simple downloadable software
Cameras use manual focus but have a flaw in the suction caps. If this is a real problem then use tape/ blu-tack or 3D print a stable camera base/ adapter (being developed and coming soon). Here....
add music by dropping your productions into windows media
The Ogobild ball jointed figures are much easier to use than play dough and plasticine figures.
You can 3D Print spare parts for your Ogobild characters.
reasonable price

The HUE Book of Animation
The HUE Book of Animation is based on The Klutz Book of Animation, an acclaimed animation activity book distributed by Scholastic. The book is also available as an ebook. click on the picture below to link. See the videos HUE has made.

3D Print your own characters and props

Thingiverse enables students to select from hundreds of thousands of objects to enhance their productions.
examples
jointed robot https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:555242
jointed human https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1322174

Design your own 3D models

Tinkercad is our preferred CAD (computer assisted design) program where students via their parents can register for their own log in. It allows you to imagine anything, and then design it in minutes!

examples
ball jointed robot https://www.tinkercad.com/things/4RUD59CxMrW-ball-joints-2

3D Print Your Own Animation Characters

TINKERPLAY Ball jointed figures suitable for animation
Click on picture to link

OGOBILD Spare Parts
Click on picture to link

Sample planning sheet for Project Based Learning
click on picture to download

Our preferred 3D Printer - The New UP Mini 2 3D Printer

We proudly support our local business and they support us
Frontier 3D Digital Design and Fabrication Studio
are well equipped to help your school enter the fascinating world of 3D Printing
16 - 18 Augusta St Willetton 6155 phone 08 9457 1715
www.frontier3d.com.au