Creating Rainforest Animals from Simple Shapes

This week our Year 3s have been creating their own Rainforest-inspired digital art by learning to use the design tool Keynote in Computing.

Starting with a photograph of their chosen rainforest animal, students then set about to recreate it using just shapes and colours.  They learnt how to not only insert shapes but also to edit and manipulate shapes to sculpt them into the exact piece they needed for their animals.

They also learnt how to use the colour sampler tool (the pipette) to match the colour of their custom shapes to the colours of the photographs they started with.

I think you’ll agree their finished pictures are absolutely beautiful!  Well done Year 3.

I started off with the head of my leopard and I used the circle shape.  I keep using circles for the other shapes too and changed them a bit to make them look right.  I put the shapes on top of the photo to get the size right.

I choose a leopard because they're one of my favourite animals!
Kai
Class 7
I looked at my photo and choose the shapes which were most similar.  I edited the shapes to make them more lifelike by squeezing and pushing them together and stretching them out to make some parts bigger.

I choose to make a koala just because they're very cute!
Isaac R
Class 7
I got lots of different shapes and went onto edit to make them look right.  I changed the colour with the pipette which changed the colour to exactly what colour you wanted from the photograph. 

Pandas are my favourite animal, I really like them!
Cora
Class 7

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