School Animating

This morning myself, Nat, Ryan, Neil, Dawn and Heather got up early to be at a local infant and primary school for 9 o'clock. The reason was because Des McCannon, from the university, had asked us if we could help her with a project she had started. She wanted us to go along to help animate some super hero characters that the children had designed. When we got there we split ourselves up so that Heather, Nat, Dawn and myself were helping to get the characters, props and scenery ready while Ryan and Neil took care of the actual filming part. We were using the cut-out technique to produce the animations and Neil told me that they were filming at four frames a second. They did this so that the children wouldn't get bored and could see the results quickly.
We only stayed until midday and unfortunately there were two groups, one of which I was helping, that didn't get around to animating but Des has sorted it so that we can go back next Thursday to get them done.
I really enjoyed myself today which was great because I thought I may have problems dealing with the children but I didn't.