Mood:  a-ok

What better way to launch my blogging than to share with you some of the animated spaceships authored and published our grade six students as part of their Space Science Fair project.

This assignment complimented our multimedia powerpoint presentations, perfectly. We started our two class 'animation workshop' with a lesson on the the history, techniques, and principles of animation (the art of bringing 'life' or motion to drawings). Flip Book and Cell animation were illustrated and discussed. This led us to try learning about and implementing sprite animation.

What is Sprite animation? It's a simple animation that's integrated into a larger scene. Learning about the computer animator's environment and creating our spaceship sprite rounded out the first lesson. In our second lesson, we used created our scene used motion tween animation to complete the illusion of motion.

>>Take a look at the results...they're 'out of this world'!<<

Mood:  special

Well here we are. You've arrived at Mr. Steinberg's blog and this is my inaugural (first) post. I will use this blog as a forum for highlighting some seriously noteworthy student work from our Middle School and provide you with some cool demos and tutorials.

This will be easier for those of you who misplace your handouts or forget them at home. 

Suggestion or cool link to add? Awesome! Hit 'comment' and help out the entire community. In the end, I hope this will be a site for you to learn, share and get inspired by.

-Mr. S.