Unit 6 - Year 2 Lessons

Overview

Students will complete Unit 6 Year 2 activities using digital art workflows.

Target skills:

• Visual Communication
• Digital Illustration
• Creative Problem Solving

Tools:

• Pixilart

Outputs:

• Student-created digital artifact(s) saved to class folder.

Week 1 - Bird (Pixilart to Wick Editor)

Lesson 1 - Bird Sprite and Motion

Wick Editor: https://www.wickeditor.com/editor/

Goal: Create a two-frame bird flap GIF and animate it moving across the canvas in Wick Editor.

1. In Pixilart, create a 32 x 32 canvas and draw bird body.
   
2. Copy frame so you have 2 frames.
   
3. On frame 1, draw wings up.
   
4. On frame 2, draw wings down.
   
   
5. Save/export as bird.gif (transparent) in student files.
   
   

Import and animate in Wick Editor:

1. Open Wick Editor and upload bird.gif as an asset.
   
   
2. Click bird.gif asset and add to canvas.
   
3. Select the green dotted frame.
   
4. Set length to 20.
   
5. Place bird at one side of canvas and resize if needed.
   
6. Click Tween.
   
7. Move red playhead to frame 20.
   
8. Move bird to opposite side.
   
9. Play and adjust as needed.
   
   
   
10. Save as bird.wick.
    

Lesson 2 - Add Bird Sound

Goal: Add timed sound frames to the bird animation.

1. Open bird.wick from student files.
   
   
2. Open Sounds and choose a bird-like sound. Add as asset.
   
   
3. Add sound frames by clicking +.
   
4. Place sound on frame 1, then again around frame 11 (length 10 each).
   
   
5. Preview. If needed, replace sound and reapply.
6. Export/save final as bird.mp4.
   
   

Week 2 - Rocketship (Pixilart to Wick Editor)

Lesson 1 - Rocket Animation and Tween

Goal: Build a 2-frame rocket flame GIF and tween rocket flight in Wick Editor.

1. In Pixilart, set canvas to 100 x 120 and draw rocket.
   
   
2. Copy frame and draw different flame shapes on frame 1 and frame 2.
   
   
3. Save as rocket.gif.
   

Import and animate in Wick Editor:

1. Open Wick Editor and upload rocket.gif.
   
   
2. Select clip frame (grey/clip box) and set length to 20.
   
   
3. Add to canvas and size appropriately.
   
   
   
4. Place rocket below canvas start position.
   
5. Add tween at frame 1.
   
6. Move playhead to frame 20.
   
   
7. Move rocket to top/outside of canvas.
   
8. Save as rocket.wick.
   

Lesson 2 - Add Rocket Sound

Goal: Add suitable rocket sound effects to the rocket animation timeline.

1. Follow the same sound workflow as Week 1.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Optional sound source for teacher-led search: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/