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Welcome to FOODIO!
We will do a series of fun activities all about food. You will learn where your favorite dish comes from, why it’s important, and what it means to you. You’ll make model ingredients using craft materials, and in the end, you’ll create a stop-motion video that shows how to make your dish while telling us the special story behind it.
Example of Stop motion
What is Stop-Motion?
Stop-motion is a type of animation where objects are moved in small steps between pictures. When the pictures play quickly, it looks like the object is moving on its own!
Types of Stop-Motion
There are different ways to do stop-motion:
- Clay animation (clay figures)
- Paper cut-outs
- Everyday objects or food
- Drawing on whiteboards
- and more
How It Works – The Basics
- Take a picture.
- Move your object a little.
- Take another picture.
- Repeat!
- Then play your pictures fast—your object moves!
Tools You Can Use
- Tablet or phone with a camera
- Stop-motion app (like Stop Motion Studio)
- Tripod or stand to keep your device steady
- Lights to keep things clear
Look at some of the animations in the next slides, pick one and answer the following questions:
- What is the story about?
- How is the story shown in the video?
- What stop-motion techniques do you see? (e.g. clay, paper, objects)
- How does stop-motion help tell the story?
- Was there anything surprising or creative in the way stop-motion was used?
ACTIVITY PROMPT
30 mins
ACTIVITY MATERIALS
- Paper
- Pencil
- Phone
Lego Stop motion Fried Chicken
Next Activity:
POST-IT
PLAY
ACTIVITY MATERIALS
- One pack of one-color sticky note
- Pencil
- One marker
- Phone
ACTIVITY PROMPT
Sketching the same subject 4 - 10 times, while slightly changing its placement each sketch, will create the frames of the animation.
1st
Choose a subject, it can be anything! Think of your favorite character, hobby...
10 min
2nd
Draw the first frame of your animation. First in pencil, then darken it in with a bold marker (keep it simple, you will need to sketch it many times)
frame 1
frame 1
10 min
3rd
Layer a new post-it on top of the first sketch and draw the next frame of the movement. Repeat this to progress your animation one frame at a time. Try to reach 20 frames
frame 5
frame 1
60 min
4th
Think about looping your motion so that the last frame is the same as your first frame for a smooth, continuous animation
5 min
5th
Once your sketches are done, set up your camera to capture the same exact framing position for each post-it sketch ( If you don’t have a tripod, stack books or any stable object to hold the camera steady and ensure the framing stays consistent)
30 min
EZGIF.COM (Website)
6th
Once you have your photos, you can use your phone to create a gif. If your phone doesn’t have a built-in gif maker, use "EZGIF" website. You can enter to this website through your phone or laptop
EZGIF.COM (Phone)
30 min
EZGIF.COM
1. Choose and Upload Your Pictures
2. Arrange Your Images
If you’re creating a GIF from a series of images, arrange them in their desired order of play by dragging and dropping them. You can adjust the Delay value to change how long each image will remain on screen before changing to the next—but keep in mind that Delay is expressed in 1/100 of a second. If you’re not sure, leave it at its default value.
3. Add Final Touches
Click Make a GIF! or Convert to GIF! You’ll be able to see a preview of your finished GIF.
At this stage, you can apply further edits like crops, optimizations, text, and effects. Once you’re happy with the way your GIF looks, click Save.
Outcome!
HAVE
FUN!
We’ll be doing a series of fun activities all about food. You’ll learn where your favorite dish comes from, why it’s important, and what it means to you. You’ll create model ingredients using craft materials, and in the end, you’ll make a stop-motion video that shows how to make your dish and tells its special story.
For your project, you’ll be making an animation of your important food’s recipe. To get started, watch video 1, video 2, and video 3 . As you watch, think about:
What materials the animator used to show the food
How the ingredients change or move during the animation
How the video is filmed: the timing, framing, lighting, and movement
Activity for this session: Post-it Play
In this activity, you're going to get a small taste of the world of animation. Using very simple materials-- post-its and pencil-- you can create a moving image!