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After a visit to the school by one of your local TV stations, they have written to you asking if you'd like to show their viewers a brief history of animation and help their viewers create their own.  They've asked if you can collect as many pictures and ideas from around the world and present them to the boss of the studio so that he can put the segment on their station.  Explore those areas of the internet that are most interesting to you and make sure you bring back lots of examples and ideas.  The boss will choose the best entries by assessing them with the MMS Rubric.

Your task is to surf through the Internet links below and find pictures, text, facts, quotes, or ideas that capture your exploration of animation. You will capture the text and images that you find important and then you will put them together in a multimedia scrapbook. Follow your interests, but be prepared to share why you chose what you did and what it means to you.

Several Tools are linked on this page to help you complete and show your scrapbook.

Specifically, you will:

1. Surf the Internet sites linked below.

    

2. Copy any text you want by dragging across the words then using the Edit - Copy command on the menubar.  Paste the Text into a basic text editor, word processor, desktop publishing program or multimedia software.

    

3. Save images you like by downloading them (Note: check with the authors of the page to see if any copyright rules apply. Usually students are allowed to download images that will only be used in the classroom. A good practice to get into is to use the email link on the page that has an image you want and ask permission. You might be surprised at the response you get.)

    

4. Either paste the images you've downloaded into a multimedia, paint or desktop publishing program (like KidPix, Powerpoint, Word or Appleworks).  Include the links to where you found each piece to acknowledge the author.

    

5. Once you have created your scrapbook, go over it carefully so that you can give clear and thoughtful reasons why you found the things you collected especially important.

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• Walt Disney Biography - Walt's life
• History of Walt Disney Studios - How the studio began
• Hanna Barbera Shows - Such as The Flintstones and Scooby Doo
• Chuck Jones Biography - Created characters such as Tweety and Bugs
• Aardman History - Creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run

• How We Do It - How Pixar studios create their computer animated movies
• How much does animation cost? - From a professional clay animation studio
• The Steps The Pro's Use To Make Animation Movies - Find out what you really need to do
• Cartoon Research News - Up to date news in the world of cartoons!
• How Web Animation Works - From Howstuffworks.com

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• A speech by Bill Watterson - Creator of Calvin & Hobbes
• What are the strengths and weakness of each kind of animation? - Cel, Stop Motion & CG
• Interview with an animator - An interview with Raman Hui, a supervising animator for both ANTZ and Shrek.
• Interview with Chuck Jones - from 1988.  What does he have to say about current animation?

• The Non-Stick Looney Page Picture Gallery
• Artist's Corner - 3 different artists for Pixar Studios
• Cartoon Clipart and Pictures - Clipart to download from many cartoons
• Disney Clipart - Pictures from various Disney productions
• Looney Tunes Clipart - Pictures from Warner Brothers cartoons
• Learn How To Draw With Gary Harbo! - An artist with heaps of lessons on how to draw easily

• Hypertext Webster Dictionary lets you quickly get definitions to words. See if you can bookmark this as a favourite site so you can get to it easily.
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus allows you to find words that have similar meanings.
• Animation Glossary - A list of terms used in animation.

    Software
 

• Microsoft Word - Check out the website for ideas
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Appleworks
• KidPix - The official website with help and support

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