PISKEL

TEACHER GUIDE

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• Group question: What is a GIF?
• Famous image format that supports animation.
• Pronounced JIFF, though many say GIF with a hard G.
• Stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
• Show examples (example1, example2)

DEMO PISKEL

• Go to site (https://www.piskelapp.com/) and start an animation/GIF/sprite.
• Explore the drawing tools and colour selection tool.
• Explore how to add a frame and look at the preview of your animation.
• Update the preview size.
• Go through the menu options on the right.
• Go over how to export a GIF animation.
• Add the downloaded GIF animation to a Google Slide document.

GROUP TASK 1 – FIREBALL EXPLOSION

• Create something similar to this.
• Take your time to create multiple frames.
• Each frame, the outside of the fireball gets a little larger. Slowly, the middle of the fireball dissipates.
• The example consists of 14 frames plus a few empty frames at the end.

GROUP TASK 2 – SAILBOAT MOVING ON WATER

• Create something similar to this.
• Start by creating the blue water rectangle at the bottom and name that layer “Water”.
• Create a second layer and name it boat. Draw the boat in the middle of the frame.
• Duplicate the layer and use the Move tool to move the boat over by two pixels.
• You need to make the frames to move the boat to the right until it gets off the screen.
• You also need to go to the start and add frames so the boat comes from the left.