Break away from the norm. If you are using Pivot Stickman Animator with your pupils, you might want to check out Droidz, a web space where you can download ready made stick figures and effects.
eSafety Alert – As this site includes a forum and share space, I recommend that primary teachers create a collection appropriate to the activities being developed rather than allowing pupils to search freely.
Try something different on your web site or create a personalised image for your next presentation with this animation generator. Just upload your photograph or insert your text then download your chosen animation as a .gif file.
Check out the Generator Blog for more exciting generators.
Cartoonster teaches pupils (and adults!) all about animation through a series of tutorials. Covering storyboards, flip books, perspective and much more, it’s great fun to use.
This excellent site enables pupils to create and direct their own animated movies. They can choose a set, actors, and music for their videos. Xtranormal allows pupils to control exactly how their movie will look; from camera angles to animations; expressions to sounds. The site is very intuative and user friendly.
Doink is an excellent and free animation creator. Once, you’ve signed up you can begin animating, drawing, and sharing. And to speed things up, you can re-use the work of thousands of other users.
Stykz is the first multi-platform stick-figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!), and is free!
If you’ve ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you’ll feel at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer.
Elastoplast, yes, that’s right, the makers of sticking plasters, have created a lovely site for children to create their own stories. The idea behind the site is that every plaster tells a story, embellish with a little imagination; a crocodile bite, an elephant charge and, hey presto an adventure is created!
Here is an example of ‘The Escaped Giraffe’.
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
