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Storytelling. Lolcats. 5 Great Sites for Student Animation. Online animation is one of the most exciting advances in education technology, allowing students the opportunity to be endlessly creative in designing their own comic strips, movies and more.

5 Great Sites for Student Animation

It’s a fantastic way to liven up the classroom and is guaranteed to be a big hit with young and older students alike, due to the great range of websites available and their ability to both cater to simplicity and accommodate more complex creations. With the advent of this plethora of great new sites, art and drawing are no longer only for the art class – they can be brought to bear on almost any subject and can be particularly useful for lightening otherwise dry topic material. You can make a cartoon or an animation out of any topic, from creating your own animated version of a Shakespeare play to a virtual model of ionic and covalent chemical bonding! Best of all, the excitement of creating their own project is guaranteed to animate (sorry couldn’t resist!)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PowToon : Bringing Awesomeness to your Presentations. Landing page. Xtranormal Movie Maker: Free Online Animated Movie Creator. Free Flash Animation Maker: Vectorian Giotto. By Ishan Bansal on April 25, 2011 | Sponsored Links Vectorian Giotto is a full featured free Flash animation maker software.

Free Flash Animation Maker: Vectorian Giotto

Vectorian Giotto is the just-right Flash animation software, and does not requires any prior design experience. Giotto follows good examples of other successful design software, using similar interface, so there’s very little need for adaptation. It comes with over 50 Flash banner templates which gives you opportunity to quickly make eye-catching banners by customizing these predefined options. Sponsored LinksGiotto comes bundled with more than 50 great effects that can be applied to both shapes and text. Some other animation software we reviewed earlier include animated gif creator, HTML 5 Animation maker, and stick figure animation maker. This Flash animation maker uses a nice concept called motion tween: you just need to set-up start and end look of objects and Giotto does the rest by itself.

Download Vectorian Giotto free. Free Animated GIF Creator: Beneton Movie GIF. By Ishan Bansal on October 16, 2010 | Sponsored Links Beneton Movie GIF is a free animated GIF creator that lets you create animated gif images for free.

Free Animated GIF Creator: Beneton Movie GIF

You can edit each individual frame of animated GIF, comes with a built-in basic image editor, and has 20 effects that you can use to quickly animate GIF images. Other similar software are free GIF Animation software, and free photo animator. Creating an animated GIF is perceived to be a difficult task, but this free animated GIF creator makes it extremely easy. An animated gif is basically a sequence of frames that combine together to form the animation. Sponsored Links You start with selecting your base image from your computer. If you want to go further, you can define the images for various frames.

This free animated GIF creator also comes with a built-in basic image editor that lets you do quick editing of individual frames. At any stage you can preview the animated gif to see that the result is as per what you want. Stykz: Free Stick Figure Animator to Create Stick Figure Animations. By sid on December 28, 2010 | Sponsored Links Stkyz is a free stick figure animation software for creating stick figure animations.

Stykz: Free Stick Figure Animator to Create Stick Figure Animations

Creating, Editing, Previewing and Distributing the stick figure animations just gets easier with Skytz. Skytz is the first multi-platform freeware in the world for creating stick figure animations. Stykz is similar to the Pivot stickfigure animator except that Stykz has several additional features like exporting animation to different formats and manipulating them on-stage. An important feature of Stykz freeware is that the user can create commonly used stick figures and save them to the library from where they can be used again and again simply by drag and drop. Microsoft Gif Animator Free Download. By Ishan Bansal on January 9, 2011 | Sponsored Links Microsoft Gif Animator is a free gif animation creator that was released by Microsoft many years back.

Microsoft Gif Animator Free Download

It is no longer available directly from Microsoft, but it can be downloaded from many other websites. Despite being quite old, Microsoft Gif Animator is still popular as it works on all the popular versions of Windows, and provides a very easy to use freeware to create Gif animations. Free GIF Animation Software - Falco GIF Animator. Falco GIF Animator is a free GIF Animator that allows you to create animated images (GIFs) for many different purposes, such as software and applications development, uploading to your website, or just for fun!

Free GIF Animation Software - Falco GIF Animator

This free GIF animation software comes not only with all the drawing options that MS Paint gives you but also a variety of special effects to make animations, such as color inversion, image rotation, flip and shift, contrast and brightness control, sharpen and emboss tools, masks and borders to help you create animations for free. FAQ. 1: What is Muvizu and what is Muvizu 3D?

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The Muvizu website is a place to meet fellow creatives and, using our site tools and downloadable free 3D animation software, make your own movies or collaborate with Muvizu members on larger projects. Muvizu 3D software has been designed to allow anyone with a decent computer and graphics card to make animated videos without specialist training and equipment. The Muvizu website and 3D application allow you to upload your creations straight to YouTube.

The website contains other tools to complement your creative efforts. There's a powerful script editor, storage space for your audio, image, video and other files, forums and, to provide feedback, work you publish may be rated and commented on. 2: How are Muvizu 3D and the Muvizu website connected? When you are running the Muvizu 3D application, it connects to the site in a couple of ways (in subsequent releases this integration will become closer and extend the functionality of the software). Muvizu: Free 3D Animation Software. K-3D: Free 3D Modeling and Animation Software. By Garima on July 19, 2010 | Sponsored Links K-3D is free 3D modeling and animation software that lets you apply your artistic skills to create 3D designs either for your projects or just for fun.

K-3D: Free 3D Modeling and Animation Software

K-3D is a very versatile and powerful piece of free 3D modeling software with an amazing set of features to let you produce animations as well as 3D designs. The free animation software lets you create motion picture quality animation and is designed to suit the needs of a professional artist, as well as someone who is more of a novice. K-3D has full Render man support like -Pixie, Aqsis, BMRT and other formats.

For modeling, the free CAD software lets you choose from a number of objects like faces, edges, curves, patches, meshes, points and many more to create 3D designs. Pivot: Free Stick Figure Animation Software. By Ishan Bansal on December 26, 2010 | Sponsored Links.

Pivot: Free Stick Figure Animation Software

DP Animation Maker: Free Animation Maker.