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Animation Resources, Film and Digital Storytelling Resources

The Best of the Best.
Super ideas, tutorials etc. for creating all types of animations

Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Is a free download.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily. It looks simple but is actually very versatile.
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Animation using PowerPoint

Fluxtime
free animation software

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Monkey Jam free editing software

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.

Clayanimator Free animation software

ClayAnimator.com contains the most in depth information on the clay animation and stop motion animation process. Discover the art and science of creating, animating, and editing clay and stop motion animation projects.

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Here is an example of animations using Clayanimator

Example 1

Culture Online

Culture Online set out to build a digital bridge between learning and culture. Between 2002-2007, Culture Online picked up 25 major awards and reached more than 15.5 million people through its websites and outreach programmes.

Elastoplast Animated Storytelling

A super website from the plaster people.

Very sweet animations using characters made up from plasters. Simple storyboard structure allows both young and old to create simple to complex animated stories.

Elastoplast

Shidonni

me and my movie

Me and My Movies

Fantastic website from the BBC. Full of information and guidance on how to create movies. The 'mashup' zone is particularly good fun.

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JUNIORNET

Make a Movie

juniornet

I Can Animate
free 5 day trial

Story Telling Alice
A free download created by

Caitlin Kelleher

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

3d Animation
Blender
(Open Source)
blender

Very sophisticated. looks quite daunting but very exciting.
Teachers at Ambleweb have used a similar programme to create 3d images.

Cartoonster

Piviot Stick Figure file

ChildLine

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