Panoply vase animation project

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• https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Digiclass:To_do_list

Editor

Steve K. Simons Dr Sonya Nevin

Anna Wang

Description

Taken from the project page. Accessed on 13-07-2026.

At the Panoply Vase Animation Project we make animations from real ancient artefacts. We make them to help people to enjoy and understand ancient cultures - watch them for fun, and use them as a teaching resource for illustrating ancient topics or teaching visual literacy and how to use artefacts as evidence.

We began making ancient-themed animations for the pleasure of it. We soon found that teachers were using them in the classroom, so we decided to make animations that placed greater emphasis on ancient artefacts – the vase animations were born! Since then we have gone on to work with the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, the University of Oxford, the University College Dublin Classical Museum, the Universities of Warsaw and Fribourg, and other great institutions. Our animations have been shown in museum exhibitions, schools and universities all over the world.

Since 2017, Sonya has been teaching trainee classics teachers about the animations at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education.

In 2021 Panoply formed a partnership with the Cambridge School Classic Project, based at the University of Cambridge, so that together we could reach more teachers and provide more support for using the animations.