Friday 23 January 2015

Animation tools for children

I decided to look at how children of a young age can use animation. It is always a good base to show children what animation is through something they can create by themselves. This is where abcya.com's animation tool comes into action for children of a young age.

It is easy to look around the website and make an animation, the design is very basic and colourful so it would be ideal for children. An adult should be there with the child especially if the child is young because it can be complicated because some options are not labelled and you need to guess what they do. It is not possible to embed the animation however it can be saved onto your computer which is ideal for classwork and at home. The clip art has a wide range of pictures that could be used for all p remade backgrounds and can be moved around with ease, making the pictures too small can make the pictures blurry.

Drawing your own pictures is possible but the paintbrushes are a bit too big for the space provided so you can’t fit much in. Copying frames is possible which is especially helpful with children who like to change their mind.



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