Animal Farm Painting
I recently pinned this little Animal Farm inspired sketch I made to the classroom wall… And here is a copy of the completed sketch:
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Scratch animation for Portha’s speech
The quality of mercy Click on the link above to see my wonderful animation!
Aladin-Man AI-generated Videos
I had a few minutes to spare so tested an AI video generating app with a description of my kids’ famous Aladin-Man character. Here are the results: I’m looking forward to AI being able to produce lengthier videos with more text to editing functions. It’ll be even better if they could be interactive, like … Read more
Aladin-Man AI-generated Art
Ok, I don’t think it’s as good as the art I did with the kids when they were creating this awesome franchise some 6 or 7 (excuse for silly animated hands gesture) years ago, but it is still an interesting experiment: describe the characters in a text-to-image AI and see what emerges. Here are the … Read more
G7 Animations of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
This Scratch animation is the result of a two-week project to digitally perform Act III Scene III of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
The Cartoon Snack Box
Living in China with kids means accumulating loads of 快递 delivery boxes, old CNC textbooks and snacks. This project explains how I used the boxes and CNC textbooks to make a cartoony box to accommodate the ever-growing pile of snacks. Step 1: Get the materials together Step 2: Construct the shape Step 3: Papermache In … Read more
The Wizard’s Mission: Promotional Paintings
Having been teaching English literature as part of my day job for the last few years, I thought I really ought to put some of this knowledge together to create my own novel. So, for my 50th birthday treat, I set a little book-writing challenge for myself. I took some of the characters and plot … Read more
3D Painting Template Preparation Tool v.1
This tool allows you to upload an image and then stretch it in such a way that, if you take a photo from the correct angle, it will look like it is popping out in 3D. The idea is to enable students to stretch their drawings and then use the stretched version as a template … Read more
Some Wings of Fire Hybrid OC Fellas
If you don’t know wings of fire, please go to the fandom page about dragons. That might help you get some context for all this. And the pages on RainWings, LeafWings, NightWings, HiveWings and SeaWings might help. But I can’t be bothered to link them so do that yourself. Also for the pictures I edited … Read more