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Article: Hands-on science (no lab required): after reading "Movie Magic", learn how the coordinate system helps animators make films.
- Article from:
- Science World
- Article date:
- March 28, 2005
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An animated movie is made up of a series of still images, or frames. These frames can flicker onscreen--one following another--at a rate of 24 frames per second. Because the images appear so quickly, your brain can't separate the frames. To you, it looks like one continuous motion.
PREDICT
How is the coordinate system helpful when creating animations such as a flipbook?
YOU NEED
ruler * pencil * 1 sheet of graph paper * black marker * scissors * 5 index cards * glue * stapler
PROCEDURE
1. Make one frame of your flipbook: Use a ruler and pencil to draw a square--10 units long by 10 units high--on a sheet of graph ...