Click below to read a summary of the Art & film project ideas
for Bronze, Silver, and Gold awards; or to go back to project
ideas click here . Make your own animation using a rotating drum
and a ‘film strip’ Animation is used in all sorts of telly
programmes and films. Start by finding out about all the
different types; for example, what sort of animation is used in
Wallace & Gromit or The Simpsons, or big pictures like Toy Story
3 or Up. Restoring art work Every major art gallery has a
scientific department, or easy access to scientific knowledge.
There are many modern scientific techniques to find out about
the sorts of materials and methods artists used – when we look
at a painting now it‟s not always the same as when the artist
painted it many years ago. Lots of materials change over the
years because of chemical changes caused, for example, by
interactions with light or oxygen. For this project you can
carry different tests on various types of paints (you could even
make some paints yourself). You can al