Software http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software Fri, 29 May 2015 11:43:39 +0000 Joomla! 1.7 - Open Source Content Management en-gb Alice http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/alice http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/alice

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games.

In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g. people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

You can find some lesson plan ideas for working with Alice here.

 

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Alice is available as a free download from www.alice.org, where you can also find teaching materials and tutorials.

Download Alice.
Download Story telling Alice.
Note: There is not much difference between the two software options except......]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 Scratch http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/scrach http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/scrach

Scratch is freely-available interactive multimedia educational software from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is intended to teach basic computer programming  concepts using simple manipulations of graphics, images and shapes.

Here's a very good introductory article about Scratch (from Communications of the ACM, Vol 52, pages 60-67).

If you're running into problems installing Scratch on your school's computers, this article by Roger Davies (Queen Elizabeth School, Cumbria) may help you along.

 

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Scratch is available as a free download from scratch.mit.edu, where you can also find teaching materials and tutorials.

Download Scratch.


]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 Adobe Flash http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/flash http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/flash

Flash is a popular professional multimedia software from Adobe Systems. Software to view Flash animations is freely available for all web browsers (Adobe Flash Player), but software to author Flash animations must be purchased from Adobe Systems (there are several free Flash authoring systems from 3rd parties, but these are not robust).

 

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Flash is available for download as a free 1 month trial from Adobe, where you can also find teaching materials and tutorials.

Download Adobe Flash Trial.]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 Serif: Draw Plus http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/serif http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/serif

Serif DrawPlus is a drawing and animation program from Serif Ltd.

In partnership with the Specialist Schools And Acadamies Trust, Serif DrawPlus is available for schools at a special price.

You can find some lesson plan ideas for working with Alice here.

 

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Details of the arrangemt with the Specialist Schools and Acadamies Trust are here.]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 KoolMoves http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/koolmoves http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/koolmoves

Used by both professionals and novices to create rich interactive content for web sites, KoolMoves is a popular Flash authoring tool with rave industry reviews!

Combining ease-of-use with a wealth of powerful animation effects, KoolMoves makes it easy and inexpensive to create professional quality animations for web sites.

As Adobe Flash® has developed into the standard for animation on the web, KoolMoves has emerged as an advanced but low cost alternative to Flash. In addition, KoolMoves now supports Html5 export for mobile devices.

Flash animation software that's so easy and powerful, they're all you need to...

 

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]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 SWiSH Max4 http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/swishmax http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/swishmax

Advanced Flash creation tool for the graphic artist or web professional. Advanced drawing tools, scripting, Flash video - everything you need for a dynamic Flash animation. New in SWiSH Max4: Morphing, Filters, Blendings and much more!

  • Advanced Flash Creation Tool For The Graphic Artist Or Web Professional
  • Creates Stunning Flash Animations and Websites with Ease
  • Includes over 380 Preset Multimedia Effects
  • Includes over 300 Ready-to-use Components and Vector Shapes
  • Import Images, Graphics, Sound and Video from all popular formats
  • Export Presentations to Flash, Video, EXE, GIF Animation or Image Sequence
  • Powerful Scripting Language for Advanced Users
  • Tools to Control Motion and Shape, Draw Shapes, Edit Text and more
  • Project templates - Instant Results Using the Wizard Panel
  • NEW! Morphing - Transform your shapes
  • NEW! Filter and Blend Effects - Blur and glow while you blend shapes and more
  • NEW! Improved Workflow - Advanced Find/Replace, New Script features, Paste options
view Swish Max 4 screenshots and examples.

 

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Flash is available for download as a free 1 month trial from Adobe, where you can also find teaching materials and tutorials.

Download Adobe Flash Trial.]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000 Blender http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/blender http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition-main/allcomps/animation12/software/blender

 

model - shade - animate - render - composite - interactive 3d

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

 

 

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Flash is available for download as a free 1 month trial from Adobe, where you can also find teaching materials and tutorials.

Download Adobe Flash Trial.]]> rina@cs.man.ac.uk (Super User) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:40 +0000