Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Straight Ahead Animation (Practice)
Try to make an animation of a bouncing ball by positioning the ball in each frame.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Animation 101 (Practice)
This is a 7-problem quiz/practice bouncing a ball using the squash and stretch with Bezier curves.
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Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
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Khan Academy: Start Here! Animation
Overview of this lesson on animation. For this lesson we are going to uncover a really useful way to construct Bezier curves of various degrees using de Casteljau's algorithm.
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Khan Academy: Save Your Animation
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.
Begin your career as an animator now! This lesson is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.
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Khan Academy: Additional Programming Projects
Here are links to 10 projects in our Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation curriculum. Each project is an opportunity for students to be more creative and free-form with their newfound programming knowledge.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bonus: Equations for Points in Subdivision
This lesson provides examples that illustrate equations for points in subdivision.
BBC
Bbc Arts: A Poppy (A Visual Poem)
Poetry and animation collide in this ironic wartime tale exploding with flowers.
BBC
Bbc Arts: Shaking the Spiders Out (A Visual Poem)
An animated poem about the "spiders" that writers sometimes have to face.
BBC
Bbc Arts: Flight Comes Easy (A Visual Poem)
This animated poem reminds us about the importance of taking risks.
California State University
Cartoon Creation
In this lesson show them a clip of one of their favorites and then show them how to make their own cartoon animation. Simple and fun for everyone.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Rasmol & Chime
This site from the University of Massachusetts links to downloadable freeware (Rasmol and CHIME) which are required to view 3-D images common on organic chemistry tutorials.
Other
Sunny Hillside Antiques: Magic Lantern
The site includes images from Magic Lantern slides, a little background on Nursery Lanterns and learning games and trivia information. Check out the links to other sites too!
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Media Studio: Animation Basics
A brief demonstration of how a flipbook can be used to create a short animation. Place five images in the correct order and press play to animate.
Other
Akemi's Anime World: Anime Faq
This site from Akemi's Anime World offers answers to some commonly asked questions about anime, including what anime is, the reason for certain stylistic characteristics, and much more.
Other
Fear of Physics: Roller Coaster
Use animation and other interactive strategies to help understand physics principles. Change the track and height to see if your ball can make it to the end.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Walt Disney
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur Walt Disney including early life, work as an artist, beginning animation, movies and television, theme parks, and fun facts on this site.
Other
Just Disney: Walt Disney Biography
A comprehensive biography of famous pioneer and animator Walt Disney. Links to his filmography and a photo gallery are included.
Curated OER
Lunar Eclipse Animation
This site provides a moving diagram of a Lunar eclipse, showing Earth's umbra and penumbra and the appearance of the Moon as it passes through these shadow regions.