The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

DigiCel Flip Book
A professional drawn animation package. See:
 
http://www.digicelinc.com
Moovl
Moovl makes drawings spring into life. Moovl imbues freehand 
drawings with bouncy physics and animated behaviours, and can be 
used on an interactive whiteboard or tablet PC.
See: http://www.moovl.co.uk/
Scratch
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create 
interactive stories, animations, games, music and art–and share 
your creations on the web.
See: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/About_Scratch

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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.

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