New Animation Software

I’m afraid since we upgraded the work stations to Windows 7 (64bit), we have found Stykz a bit unreliable with some classes.  We have therefore moved on to the beta 4 edition of Pivot Animator. Pivot is a great piece of software that has a very similar interface to stykz, you should find it no problem to use at all. It is free software and I have put a

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Introduction to Animation

So we started Animation properly today and everyone took to it easily. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/-E-0PNDcfh4″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I have put together a YouTube play list for the course and I have started to populate it with video tutorials. Here is what we covered today.

An update to our e-portfolios

Today we finished uploading the powerpoint assessments and the wrote an entry for our e-portfolios. With the 10 minutes or so left at the end of the class I showed you software we will use in our next topic. It is called Stykz and it is a stick figure animator. We will be using this for a few weeks but I thought I might let you see what you can do.

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