Apr
09
2009
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.
As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch is available free of charge from the Download page. To find more about the educational ideas underlying Scratch, visit our Educators page.
To learn how to use Scratch, go to Support.
To read about the people working on Scratch, see the Credits. To hear the latest Scratch news stories, visit News.
Apr
07
2009
I came across this free animation software that was being used in a year 3/4 class in Oz – around 8 – 10yrs, I gather

Apr
07
2009
A new animation toy/tool has arrived on the internet waves from London-based, FluxTime Inc.

One can now log on to www.fluxtime.com, and create personalized animation clips, which can be sent from within the site’s internal mailing system to friends and family, posted in the FluxTime gallery, or entered in one of many of FluxTime’s many contests.
Apr
07
2009
create animated cartoons
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills.
You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go
Try their free download
Apr
07
2009
What’s MonkeyJam?

MonkeyJam is a digital penciltest program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation.
You can also import images and sound files already on your computer. Although it is designed for pencil and paper, MonkeyJam can also be used for StopMotion animation and has several features just for that. Movies created in MonkeyJam can be exported as AVI files.
Apr
07
2009
Multimedia animation techniques
“Keyframe” animation with duplicate slides or sprites. For example, you can make a stick figure appear to move its arm, or to walk. Sprites are existing figures that you can download that appear in various stages of motion
from powerpoint tips
Apr
07
2009
Film Street
The project, led by First Light, is designed to motivate children as young as six years old to build their understanding of film and film making through the use of online tools and real world activities.
The project enables collaboration between children, and encourages them to reach out into the community and harness filmmaking tools to communicate.
Apr
07
2009
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.
As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch is available free of charge from the Download page. To find more about the educational ideas underlying Scratch, visit our Educators page.
To learn how to use Scratch, go to Support.
To read about the people working on Scratch, see the Credits. To hear the latest Scratch news stories, visit News.
thanks to SVSD