Animation
Animatron students can create short animations that can be played back on any device. The tool is a great alternative to creating static presentations, and would work well for upper elementary through high school students.
Animaker Simple to use drag and drop animation for all ages.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Rawshorts creating whiteboard animation videos in three simple steps: ‘First, choose from dozens of professionally designed templates across every category to make a video scribe for your business.Second, add your own media, text, transitions, effects and audio and create something totally original, and third promote your new sketch video on YouTube, Facebook, a landing page and more
BiteableBiteable boasts to be the simplest animated video creator. This tool lets you add text, photos, colors, and sound to customize your video in a drag-and-drop timeline. It also offers plenty of scenes like animation, live action, and photo in numerous styles, and you can even use its ready-made templates.
Licecap Gif animator Can capture video or individual pictures. You can insert title frames.
Video tutorial. Tutorial does not show how to insert text. Just click the Insert button after first clicking the pause button.
Free Course to Help Teachers and Students Learn The Basics of Animation Pixar in A Box is a free online course created out of a partnership between Khan Academy and Pixar Animation Studios. The course introduces learners to the fundamentals of the art of animation. More specifically, learners get to experience first-hand knowledge of the techniques and methods Pixar engineers use to create movies and animations. Video overview
Draw Island is a free online tool (tablet-friendly) for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw. Draw Island offers two canvas sizes for creating simple GIF animations.
Parapara Animation is a free animation creation tool developed and hosted by Mozilla. The tool is easy to use and it does not require registration in order to use it. To get started simply visit the Parapara Animation website, select a digital crayon, then start drawing. Click the large "+" icon in the top of the screen to add a new frame to your animation. You can playback your frames at any time in the creation process. When you're done making your animation it will be assigned a unique URL that can be shared via email. A QR code for your animation will also be generated for you.
Devolver streamlines the animation process into a quick, six-step multiple choice project. Choose your background, characters and one of four plots; type in some dialog; choose some music; and — voila! — you have an animated movie. Despite the extremely limited customization options, it's actually not a bad looking cartoon.
Gifckr animated gif maker This is an easy to use site that lets a user upload up to 10 images to create the gif. Then a user selects the size and speed for the transitions. Once finished the animated gif can then be downloaded.
ABCya Animate allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames.
Students build their animation creations by drawing, typing, and inserting images. Students can change the background of each frame, include new pictures in each frame, and change the text in each frame of their animations. The feature that I like best about ABCya Animate is that students can see the previous frames of their animations while working on a current frame. This helps students know where to position items in each frame in order to make their animations as smooth as possible. Students do not need to register on ABCya Animate in order to use the tool or to save their animations. When students click "save" on ABCya Animate their creations are downloaded as GIFs.
Maya Innovative tools for 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering.
Sketch Toy - a web-based drawing tool and Chrome App that allows you to quickly create and share drawings from any browser. What makes Sketch Toy different from other tools is the ability to not only draw, but also automatically convert your drawings into step-by-step animations that can be shared with a link (only when you view through link will yousee step-by step animation). Additionally, anyone who accesses your drawing can then add on to it and generate a new link to share, allowing students to quickly iterate on each others' drawings WITHOUT needing an account!
Sketch Toy also lets you rotate your drawings as 3D models and includes a "vibration" setting which makes your drawings appear slightly animated - much like Squigglevision. You can also drag any image from your desktop onto the screen and incorporate it into your drawing.
Teacher’s Guides that explore the art and science of motion pictures. The free Teacher’s Guides address Animation, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes and Makeup, Documentaries, Film Editing, Media Literacy, Screenwriting, Sound and Music, and Visual Effects. The activities are designed to capitalize on students’ natural interest in current films and the excitement generated by the Academy Awards to teach valuable lessons in critical thinking and creative writing, and to develop visual literacy skills. Each Teacher’s Guide is available in its entirety to download and print at no charge. The guides are made available to high sch ools throughout the United States.Click Here to Download Free Teacher’s Guides
Blender - free 3D software animator
Animatron students can create short animations that can be played back on any device. The tool is a great alternative to creating static presentations, and would work well for upper elementary through high school students.
Animaker Simple to use drag and drop animation for all ages.
Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Rawshorts creating whiteboard animation videos in three simple steps: ‘First, choose from dozens of professionally designed templates across every category to make a video scribe for your business.Second, add your own media, text, transitions, effects and audio and create something totally original, and third promote your new sketch video on YouTube, Facebook, a landing page and more
BiteableBiteable boasts to be the simplest animated video creator. This tool lets you add text, photos, colors, and sound to customize your video in a drag-and-drop timeline. It also offers plenty of scenes like animation, live action, and photo in numerous styles, and you can even use its ready-made templates.
Licecap Gif animator Can capture video or individual pictures. You can insert title frames.
Video tutorial. Tutorial does not show how to insert text. Just click the Insert button after first clicking the pause button.
Free Course to Help Teachers and Students Learn The Basics of Animation Pixar in A Box is a free online course created out of a partnership between Khan Academy and Pixar Animation Studios. The course introduces learners to the fundamentals of the art of animation. More specifically, learners get to experience first-hand knowledge of the techniques and methods Pixar engineers use to create movies and animations. Video overview
Draw Island is a free online tool (tablet-friendly) for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw. Draw Island offers two canvas sizes for creating simple GIF animations.
Parapara Animation is a free animation creation tool developed and hosted by Mozilla. The tool is easy to use and it does not require registration in order to use it. To get started simply visit the Parapara Animation website, select a digital crayon, then start drawing. Click the large "+" icon in the top of the screen to add a new frame to your animation. You can playback your frames at any time in the creation process. When you're done making your animation it will be assigned a unique URL that can be shared via email. A QR code for your animation will also be generated for you.
Devolver streamlines the animation process into a quick, six-step multiple choice project. Choose your background, characters and one of four plots; type in some dialog; choose some music; and — voila! — you have an animated movie. Despite the extremely limited customization options, it's actually not a bad looking cartoon.
Gifckr animated gif maker This is an easy to use site that lets a user upload up to 10 images to create the gif. Then a user selects the size and speed for the transitions. Once finished the animated gif can then be downloaded.
ABCya Animate allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames.
Students build their animation creations by drawing, typing, and inserting images. Students can change the background of each frame, include new pictures in each frame, and change the text in each frame of their animations. The feature that I like best about ABCya Animate is that students can see the previous frames of their animations while working on a current frame. This helps students know where to position items in each frame in order to make their animations as smooth as possible. Students do not need to register on ABCya Animate in order to use the tool or to save their animations. When students click "save" on ABCya Animate their creations are downloaded as GIFs.
Maya Innovative tools for 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering.
Sketch Toy - a web-based drawing tool and Chrome App that allows you to quickly create and share drawings from any browser. What makes Sketch Toy different from other tools is the ability to not only draw, but also automatically convert your drawings into step-by-step animations that can be shared with a link (only when you view through link will yousee step-by step animation). Additionally, anyone who accesses your drawing can then add on to it and generate a new link to share, allowing students to quickly iterate on each others' drawings WITHOUT needing an account!
Sketch Toy also lets you rotate your drawings as 3D models and includes a "vibration" setting which makes your drawings appear slightly animated - much like Squigglevision. You can also drag any image from your desktop onto the screen and incorporate it into your drawing.
Teacher’s Guides that explore the art and science of motion pictures. The free Teacher’s Guides address Animation, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes and Makeup, Documentaries, Film Editing, Media Literacy, Screenwriting, Sound and Music, and Visual Effects. The activities are designed to capitalize on students’ natural interest in current films and the excitement generated by the Academy Awards to teach valuable lessons in critical thinking and creative writing, and to develop visual literacy skills. Each Teacher’s Guide is available in its entirety to download and print at no charge. The guides are made available to high sch ools throughout the United States.Click Here to Download Free Teacher’s Guides
Blender - free 3D software animator