Electric Chalk » animation http://www.electricchalk.com ...because everybody learns from everybody else. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:50:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Making stop-motion animation http://www.electricchalk.com/2009/08/11/making-stop-motion-animation/ http://www.electricchalk.com/2009/08/11/making-stop-motion-animation/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:19:24 +0000 Chris http://www.electricchalk.com/?p=572 M’learned colleague at Sheffield South CLC, Catherine Moore has been using her summer profitably. She’s made a short how-to about making stop motion animation. I particularly like the paper clip fish.

I thought it needed sharing. Please have a look and let Catherine know what you think.

Now, go and look at the Sheffield South CLC blog for more ideas and a showcase of the work they’re doing.

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Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m actually working when I come across things like this! Once again thanks to The Ed Techie for drawing it to our attention.

Basically, it’s a 3d animation tool for dummies. You type in your script select character costumes, pick camera angles, sounds, music etc.

The results can be crude but have a certain charm to them. Here are a few examples…

Introduction to a teaching topic on digital media

 

Something more fun…
 

Excellent tool for teaching about storyboarding and pre-production or maybe just general cross-curricular idea presentation.

Word of warning, it’s at beta stage at the mo so using it as a class activity may not be reliable. Also, when it comes out of beta testing you may find that you have to pay to put stuff up on it.

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Find it on Youtube here…

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