Grace Kat's List: movie-making | animations

Learn the basics of film-making. Upload your movies.

A tiny, stripped-down video recorder the size of a digital camera (but you hold it vertically).

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.

The user-generated comic strip. Create comics and share them.

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.

Stop Motion Pro is a software tool for making stop motion and other animated films. It requires a video camera, webcam or digital still camera and is compatible with Win XP or Vista.

A web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos. This is their education section.

by Sue Waters - how to create instructional "how to" videos

is an award winning training, education and presentation authoring application that uses customised 3D animated characters to communicate important information to community based audiences.

OpenSource Realtime Media Playback and Visual Effects System.

SAM is software designed to give students the power of making stop-action animations to share their ideas and understanding. The environment provides an alternative expressive medium for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education that allows students to match their learning styles to the way the present and communicate ideas.

- create animations from GIF images from SnapFiles.

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. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)

UnFREEz is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images.

Wesley Fryer's experiences teaching the stopmotion filmmaking class for the Fine Arts Academy.

With Frames students can create stop-motion animated stories using pictures of clay characters they make, stop-motion pictures from a DV or USB camera, pictures they have taken with a digital camera, or pictures they have drawn or painted in Twist, Pixie, or ImageBlender.

Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program