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The Teachers’
Animation Toolkit
OTHER MAC-BASED SOLUTIONS
iStopMotion
Easy to use Stop-Motion animation software for Mac OS X. Allows
you to use your computer and DV camcorder
or USB webcams to
capture single frames for stop motion
See: http://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/
FrameThief
FrameThief is a software package for
creating animation on the
Macintosh platform
See: http://www.framethief.com
BTV Pro
supports
movie playback and editing, stop-motion
animation, time-lapse capture, motion detection, DV stream input/
output and frame averaging.
See: http://www.bensoftware.com
I Can Animate
has established itself
as a popular Stop-Motion
Animation tool for Mac OS X.
See: http://www.kudlian.net/products/icananimate/
With
Frames
(PC Windows or Mac) students can create stop-motion
animated stories using pictures
of clay characters they make,
stop-motion pictures from a DV or USB camera,
pictures they have
taken with a digital camera or pictures they have drawn or painted in.