Ok so this is how the students made this movie. First we watched a film of a crow in flight. I got 13 screen grabs of the full wing beat of the crow then printed b&w versions for the students to trace and add their own designs. They had to keep in mind that each frame will be in motion and to take advantage of that when choosing their design to color in. The finished crows were then scanned and I put them in motion using Adobe Flash. At that point I saved it as an animated gif just for fun.
Next the students made the background for the crow to fly over. Each one had to start and finish linked together. The mountain background then was added in Flash behind the crow. Last the class went to a licence free music site and chose the best music to match the movie and there you go.
I think we can now see how much work goes into an animation. It took us four classes to get a 20 sec. movie. It really came out great!