Rainforest Animation

This term year 5 have been using digital technology in Art lessons to explore their ideas. Our Rainforest Topic gave us lots of inspiration to create stop motion animations.

To begin we looked at the ways artists have made work about the Rainforest. Artist Henri Rousseau made paintings of the Rainforest. We discovered that he never actually visited the Rainforest, instead he imagined what it would be like, and did research using books and plant specimens. 

We made backgrounds inspired by Rousseau, collaging repeated shapes using suitable colours to represent the plants and vegetation. Then we animated these scenes, taking photographs of the backdrops to create a narrative, with beginning, middle and end.

These are a few of our animations:

Adem and Amelia

Sevgi and Foday