{"id":4249,"date":"2011-02-01T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2011-02-01T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:57:06","slug":"lego-building-secrets-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/lego-building-secrets-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Building Secrets Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19434162?portrait=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was the best day of my life, so far!&#8221; said one of the three boys who enjoyed an afternoon of Lego fun this weekend with ex-Legoland model builder, Jamie.\u00a0 Jamie has an amazing Lego collection and during the afternoon shared some of his secrets to Lego building.\u00a0 They all agreed that making this animation above was the highlight, so read on to find out how they made it and what else they got to learn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The boys used the animation software <a href=\"http:\/\/animatordv.com\/download_free.php\" target=\"_blank\">AnimatorDV Simple+<\/a> to create their mini movie, which they named &#8216;Squash&#8217;.\u00a0 Using the technique of stop animation, they created a moving image by taking a series of still photos, changing the Lego figures positions a little bit each time.\u00a0 When they played them in sequence it looked like the Lego figures were moving.\u00a0 There were 12 frames (photos) for each second so, as you can imagine, it took a while to create even this short movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4250\" title=\"lego-animation-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-animation-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamie also had lots of Lego models to show the boys.\u00a0 Each used a variety of remote controls and pneumatics together with\u00a0 motors, gears and pistons to create a wide range of movements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4252\" title=\"lego-models-1-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-models-1-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4253\" title=\"lego-models-2-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-models-2-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4254\" title=\"lego-models-4-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-models-4-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He also showed the boys how to create copies of their favourite movie or real life vehicles by scaling them down to size on special Lego paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4255\" title=\"lego-models-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-models-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how it&#8217;s possible to create a curve shape with flat-faced Lego bricks?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll Jamie revealed the secret!\u00a0 He showed the boys how to plan it out using\u00a0 special paper, a compass and some maths.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4256\" title=\"lego-dome-1-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-dome-1-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4257\" title=\"lego-dome-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-dome-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4258\" title=\"lego-dome-2-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-dome-2-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4259\" title=\"lego-dome-3-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-dome-3-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was pretty tricky to do, but it was worth seeing it through to the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4260\" title=\"lego-dome--4-30-01-11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lego-dome-4-30-01-11.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamie is a dad of one of our Preschool children.\u00a0 He kindly offered to  share his tips and passion for Lego as an item to bid for at our recent &#8216;Silent Auction&#8217; fund raising event.\u00a0 Many thanks, Jamie.\u00a0 The lucky boys certainly had an amazing  afternoon. I think you well and truly have inspired them to further their own passion for Lego  building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It was the best day of my life, so far!&#8221; said one of the three boys who enjoyed an afternoon of Lego fun this weekend with ex-Legoland model builder, Jamie.\u00a0 Jamie has an amazing Lego collection and during the afternoon shared some of his secrets to Lego building.\u00a0 They all agreed that making this animation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}