Objective: Students will learn that an object might never have a "fixed" existence and may be a thing existing always in flux by creating a frame-based animation of something that transforms from one shape into another.

Motivation:

• Ever realize that something had changed since you last saw it?

Dialogue:

• What things in this world transform from one shape into another?
  (caterpillars into butterflies, tadpoles into frogs, seeds into plants, rivers into canyons)
• What kinds of imaginary things transform?
  (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, video game heroes, werewolves, vampires, magicians)
• What does transformation signify to you?
  (growth, change, passage of time, two halves of the same whole i.e good and evil)

Demonstration Dialogue:

• How can we use several cards in HyperStudio (or layers in PhotoShop) to show one thing transforming into another?
• How can we 'preview' the animation as it grows by flipping through the frames?
• How can we adjust the speed to have the animation play slow or fast enough for us to understand what is happening?
• What are some ways the viewer can control when the animation starts and stops?

Visualization:

• How does one thing transform into another?
• What shapes are created in-between?
• Is it a fluid transformation or does it happen suddenly?
• What will your subject look like in the first frame? And the last?
• Will your subject be situated in an environment?

Transition:

• Will it help for you to have both end and beginning frames painted before the rest of the in-betweens?

Suggested Software:

• HyperStudio
• PhotoShop and GIFBuilder