Connecting by Skype

Children in Finland together with children in Japan by Skype.

Shark story

Picture Japan sound Finland

Pu-tanken

Picture Finland sound Japan

Interested

We talked about Japan with children, thought about the flag and the countries Finland and Japan on the map. The children thought about questions to ask on Friday when they via video connection get to communicate with children in Japan. We also saw how the letters look like in Japan and some of the children by own initiative started copying Japanese signs from the sound script that was in Japanese.

Coming adventures

The animating collaboration has taken one new adventures.

From story board to animation.

The storyboard is the master plan when the animation is made, children follow the storyboard and it can be seen in the finish animation.

Storyboard

scene from animation

Imagination of the makers adds to the animation as it takes form. Giving a few ideas and letting children do themselves ads up to an excellent result.

Right location and actors.

The process making the characters takes some time and the story changes when children let there imagination take over. New backgrounds and characters take form and soon the animating starts. Children learn to break boundaries, what’s possible in real life and that impossible things can be done when animating.

Children had made a house and a bear one child said the bear can’t go in to the house it’s to big, I said that in animations everything is possible and they gladly continued making more things for the animation.

Working together is important in animating

Building scenes

Animation BOX

Collaboration

The manuscript is not written fore the collaboration between two kindergartens that’s geographically far from each other but don’t se that as an obstacle fore a fruitful experience.

Storyboard

Storyboard fore upcoming animation. Pictures Finland and sound made in Japan

Finnish Japanese made animation Trailer

We hope this is the first of many projects together where children are given the chanse to try and have fun makeing animations.