Sharing the Addiction

I have been playing a lot on the computer in the last week experimenting with different bits and pieces. I was looking for instructional videos on the excellent Fotoflexor for my upcoming workshop wiki when I noticed that the man who made videos for this also made videos for something called GoAnimate which I had not heard of before. Always keen to check things out, I signed up on the website and had a go. Below you can see my efforts. I love the ease of use of this tool. However, there are some backgrounds that aren’t that appropriate (eg bars) and some props that aren’t that great either (eg guns) so I am not sure that it could be used with younger children. I don’t think it would be that big a problem with older kids though. The demonstration animation that you can watch on signing up has some rather uncomfortable moments in terms of appropriateness so I wouldn’t use it as a model at any time. Anyway,  I had a good time making this animation and I didn’t make use of half the possible features!

Update: It appears that this embed code gets stripped of its link to the video when in this blogging platform so to see what I have done, go to my wiki page: http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Animation

Tags: animation