The jump rope girl is another example of a simple animation that takes place in a rectangle space and loops over and over.
Many students try to have too much happen in their animation.
In the parachutist example above, the student changed the background to give the illusion of movement through space. This is a little trickier to pull off, but it worked because the basic action, jumping and landing, was fairly simple. We brainstorm in our groups and then sketch out our ideas on a story board. Try to limit the number of images to 2 to 4. Some images may be used more than once as in the case of the genie in a bottle at the top of the page.