The world is very technological and with that visuals are part of learning and communicating. Art was once thought of as its own in the world of learning, but is not everywhere with television, computers and smartphones that it comes through. It is expanding.
Within society animation is a big part in visuals. It was once just meant for Saturday morning cartoons and feature-length movies. Animation is now a big part of many things like reports, records and items that are seen on a day to day basis that is outside of the entertainment industry.
In today's world we are caught in the wave of technology that is part of everyday life. This is something that will not be leaving any time soon. I want to be a part of that and I want to teach students to be a part of it. This is something that many people will have to survive life and get the benefits of learning it in an efficient way.
Seeing a Student who just shot and is viewing their first animation to hear the shrill of “Woah” “Wow” “Cool” and more is something that is thrilling as an instructor. It's a power that they created and the world that is created in that. Their imagination has potential for endless possibilities and has endless ways of being able to express ideas. Ideas are the building blocks of learning. As an educator, I would love to create then share as many of these building blocks with my students as I can; and see them do the same with what they’ve learned.
Since civilization began, the sharing of ideas has been inextricably linked to learning like the alphabet is linked to reading. Shared ideas are best expressed through discussing past learning—also deemed “past knowledge” which was in itself, at one time, a “new idea”. Animation is one of the best ways to give clear visual expression to new ideas and abstract concepts simply by its natural ability to conquer the eye and guide it to where it needs to go to optimize instruction.
With animation it does go along with some of the core curriculum by having to use writing skills when creating a script for creating the story. Math skills to know the half way, or thirds or even quarters when doing inbetweening work for key frames. They learn about physics in a form that they would have never known and it is talked about why a ball would be half way lower than a bounce before it.
Because of the processes involved, there is a place for anyone who wants to participate in the creation of an animation—even if they have limited drawing skills. From beginning to end, animation requires a “team effort”. How else could one ever hope to control the processes involved that create 21,000 individual frames generated from 30 frames per second, at 1,800 frames per minute while carefully syncing up everything to a soundtrack performed by voice actors and musicians for the duration of a typical 12-minute animated short? An experienced animator can barely animate 1 minute of that successfully by themselves in one week’s time.
Therein lies the best part. Teaching animation and producing an end product requires everyone to interact with each other. It is a lesson in not just creating life, but in living it to accomplish your goal as a team and as an individual. It never gets boring. Each new story generates a new set of challenges that build upon your past experience and successes. To me, because of all the subject matter it touches upon, the people it involves individually and as a group it is the epitome of what learning truly is.
Within society animation is a big part in visuals. It was once just meant for Saturday morning cartoons and feature-length movies. Animation is now a big part of many things like reports, records and items that are seen on a day to day basis that is outside of the entertainment industry.
In today's world we are caught in the wave of technology that is part of everyday life. This is something that will not be leaving any time soon. I want to be a part of that and I want to teach students to be a part of it. This is something that many people will have to survive life and get the benefits of learning it in an efficient way.
Seeing a Student who just shot and is viewing their first animation to hear the shrill of “Woah” “Wow” “Cool” and more is something that is thrilling as an instructor. It's a power that they created and the world that is created in that. Their imagination has potential for endless possibilities and has endless ways of being able to express ideas. Ideas are the building blocks of learning. As an educator, I would love to create then share as many of these building blocks with my students as I can; and see them do the same with what they’ve learned.
Since civilization began, the sharing of ideas has been inextricably linked to learning like the alphabet is linked to reading. Shared ideas are best expressed through discussing past learning—also deemed “past knowledge” which was in itself, at one time, a “new idea”. Animation is one of the best ways to give clear visual expression to new ideas and abstract concepts simply by its natural ability to conquer the eye and guide it to where it needs to go to optimize instruction.
With animation it does go along with some of the core curriculum by having to use writing skills when creating a script for creating the story. Math skills to know the half way, or thirds or even quarters when doing inbetweening work for key frames. They learn about physics in a form that they would have never known and it is talked about why a ball would be half way lower than a bounce before it.
Because of the processes involved, there is a place for anyone who wants to participate in the creation of an animation—even if they have limited drawing skills. From beginning to end, animation requires a “team effort”. How else could one ever hope to control the processes involved that create 21,000 individual frames generated from 30 frames per second, at 1,800 frames per minute while carefully syncing up everything to a soundtrack performed by voice actors and musicians for the duration of a typical 12-minute animated short? An experienced animator can barely animate 1 minute of that successfully by themselves in one week’s time.
Therein lies the best part. Teaching animation and producing an end product requires everyone to interact with each other. It is a lesson in not just creating life, but in living it to accomplish your goal as a team and as an individual. It never gets boring. Each new story generates a new set of challenges that build upon your past experience and successes. To me, because of all the subject matter it touches upon, the people it involves individually and as a group it is the epitome of what learning truly is.