Animation Workshop Part 1

In our second session we learnt a little about animation - We made a simple flip book so that we understood that animations are made of losts of 'frames' or different pictures that flash quickly in the same place. There can be 15 or more frames in one second of animation - it's a slow process!

Then we used three programs to make animations:

http://www.abcya.com/animate_classic.htm - this is brilliant - up to 40 frames, you can see the previous frame (onion skin) and it saves as a .gif file

http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm - a newer version - up to 100 frames, and lots of pre-made images. 

Finally, some students used a free program called Real Word Painter, found here - it really is excellent - I even made a donation! The best thing is that you can create an animation frame by frame, but only need o save it once. It is quite technical, and the students have really found their way around it very well. 

And sometimes the hardest thing is to come up with an idea...great work!