5 Innovative Animation Tools for Teachers
Move over, Disney. Step aside, Pixar! It’s now easier than ever for casual users to create fun, engaging animations. Teachers can use these tools with students to create all sorts of creative projects. Kerpoof Studio Kerpoof Studio is an easy to use animation site, great for younger kids. Blabberize Blabberize is a fun site where users can upload a picture, upload audio, and then combine them so the mouth in the photo is animated and synchronized with the audio. ABCYA has an animation tool that allows users to create a series of drawings and animate them into a flip book. Fluxtime Fluxtime is an interesting tool that allows the user to record actions as they move things around the screen, manually creating the animation. Scratch Unlike the others, Scratch is a downloadable program that you install on a computer, instead of using it through a web browser. Do you have a favorite animation tool y0u use with students?
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Gorgeous, psychedelic hand-drawn animation made with ink, white-out and coffee
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Yoga in an X-Ray Machine
Courtesy of Hybrid Medical Animations comes a high-tech “visual study/exploration of the body in motion.” The goal of the animation was to create a realistic representation of x-rays, while also capturing the beauty of various yoga poses. Looks like they hit the mark on both accounts. In creating this 3D animation, no x-rays were actually used. via Twisted Sifter Related Content: Sonny Rollins Describes How 50 Years of Practicing Yoga Made Him a Better Musician Watch a New Music Video Shot Entirely Within an MRI Machine What Happens When Your Brain is on Alfred Hitchcock: The Neuroscience of Film This is Your Brain on Sex and Religion: Experiments in Neuroscience Free Guided Meditations From UCLA: Boost Your Awareness & Ease Your Stress
An Animated Look At How A Speaker Makes Sound
We use speakers all of the time. In fact, I’d guess that the device on which you are reading this article has a speaker on it somewhere. Do you know how a speaker works? I’ll admit, I had no idea before I found this awesome animated infographic. Sure, I knew that there was a cone and a bunch of other components that allows them to push the sound towards my ears, but other than that, it was complicated nonsense. Via Animagraffs Click To Enlarge Each Image
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