Lesson: 10 - AI Activity
Animated Drawing AI

Purpose: To teach students how to use AI tools to turn simple drawings into animated characters. To enhance creativity and digital skills through fun and interactive learning.

No. of. Classes

  • One class (1 hour)
  • Class 8 and above

Materials Required
  • Laptop / Desktop with internet connection.
  • Laptops / Desktops: 10
  • Students strength: 15 to 20.
    • Curriculum Content 10. 1) Animated Drawings / Meta Sketch
    10.2) Hand drawn doodle
    10.3) ChatGpt
    Prior knowledge

    DL Activity - Browser

    DL Activity - Tux paint (Optional)

    Exercises

      Exercise:1

    1. Step 1 : Draw a simple doodle. Students can draw the doodle in any of the following ways:

      ◉ Tux Paint

      ◉ Use their own photo for the activity

      ◉ Use a scanned image of a hand drawn doodle

      ◉ Download a doodle or image from the internet

      ◉ GNU Paint or JS Paint for Linux.


    2. Step 2: Animate the simple doodle and create an animation file using

      Animated Drawings / Meta Sketch

    Solutions


    Teacher's Instruction:
    1. Ensure that students have basic familiarity with using web browsers and accessing websites before beginning the activity.
    2. Using Tux Paint is optional—students can draw on paper or use downloaded images. In Hi-Tech Lab (Linux OS), they may use GNU-based drawing apps.
    3. Encourage students to experiment with different types of drawings. For example, ask them to create doodles without hands or legs and observe how this affects the animation output.
    4. Guide students to carefully observe how their simple drawings are transformed into animated characters, and encourage them to reflect on this process.
    5. Focus AI Concept:

      6. 👉🏿 How computer vision works - AI reognizes body parts as coordinates and maps into a skeleton

    6. Does the AI truly understand the drawing, or is it only matching patterns it has learned from many examples? Click here
    7. What happens if the drawing is missing some body parts—can the AI still animate it correctly? Click here

    8. How AI Works

      Click here Tamil / English to view the video for How AI works (Animated Drawing)


    9. Teachers should compare this lesson with the corresponding AI Activities lesson, as this lesson is adapted from the first AI Activities lesson. Sometimes, the AI Activities lessons may include additional features.