Donna F's List: Animation/Avatars

Got images? Create videos!\n\nStupeflix is a REST web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos.

Cartoonist - The Cartooning Tool\nWith Cartoonist, you can compose multimedia stories. You can use the tool to create comic strips or more personal digital narratives.

an online tool that lets you easily create a face. You're given a zillion options for hair, nose, etc. You can save it to your computer without registering, but if you want to save it and have the site host your creation you have to register.\n\nIt's easy to register. Once that's done, you can label you face and describe it. You then get a unique url address that you can post.\n

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.

`Digital Collections

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Audio
Video
Webcasts

• Audio & Video from NYPL

• NYPL on iTunes U

• NYPL's YouTube Channel

• Treasures of The New York Public Library Video Series

• eNYPL: Books, Video, Audio

• Tumblebooks: Animated Talking Picture Books

• BookFlix: Video Storybooks, Nonfiction (PreK - 3)

• Recorded Books/Net Library audiobooks



Image Collections
Images
Prints
Photographs

• NYPL Digital Gallery

• Treasures of The New York Public Library

• Africana & Black History

• After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture

• More Image Collections
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Text Collections
Text
Poetry
Fiction

Everything you need to build your website - animated graphics, software, java applets, javascript, etc.

Be Funky is a tool that I was reminded of on Friday when a reader asked me for a tool to create avatars. Be Funky is a simple tool for turning digital photographs into digital comics. The image you see to the left is a cartoonized image of myself and Ernie Easter taken at NECC 2009.\n\n\n\n\nApplications for Education\nBe Funky is a simple and fun way to create comic-style avatars for students to use on blogs or other networks. Students could also use Be Funky to create a comic strip by converting and saving images to arrange in a story.

Describes Pixton

A Blabber is a Talking Picture! CLICK THE PLAY BUTTON ON THE ALPACA!

3D display of my photos today with a website

Kickfly explained

Last week Animoto announced a partnership with LIFE to bring new collections of imagery to Animoto users. Animoto users can find images from LIFE in the categories of Travel and Animals. LIFE is also using Animoto's technology on their website to create great videos like this one about ducks.


Just follow these three steps:

1. Upload clips from your camera or phone (iPhone 3GS anyone??), or use some from our collection (thanks to iStockphoto and Getty Images).
2. Choose your highlights. You can choose highlights of up to 10 seconds each, though we recommend using only 3-5 seconds as that works best within the flow of an Animoto video.
3. Create the rest of your video as normal, and you're done.

SEND VIRTUAL FLOWERS: With Flowers 2 Mail, you can create a virtual bouquet and send a message with it. Both can be posted on a student or teacher website.