Animating Puppets Using Mobile Phones and Tablets

By Sheila Ceccarelli

Why Mobile Phones and Tablets?

Teenagers had been working on Making Puppets with Mixed Media for a couple weeks and suddenly bringing them to life (animating them) using video, camera and apps, readily available on phones in pockets and tablet devices was a fun and accessible next step.

Animating puppets: Nina takes a photo of her puppet on a device — Nina takes a photo of her puppet on a device

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