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Not sure what sort of animation you're envisaging here. If you're simply talking about displaying a sequence of still images of children's work, possibly with text annotations, and you want to keep things simple, you could use Microsoft PowerPoint, or OpenOffice Impress. You can do some fairly fancy things with those, but I wouldn't really call them animation. If "bringing taxidermy to life" means stop-frame animation of stuffed animals, it gets much more complicated. For the software, there are dedicated programs like Dragon Stop Motion, Stop Motion Pro, and a host of others, but you can get going with most video editing packages (such as the "lite" versions of Vegas and Premiere, or Serif MoviePlus). Take a sequence of stills with a digital camera, import them into the timeline, and set each one to display for one frame, or two frames for a jerkier effect (well, "The Clangers" got away with it.). Then export as a video. You'll need to mount your camera on a tripod, use manual exposure, set up consistent lighting, and take pics at low resolution to save disc space. The resolution of non-widescreen PAL video is 720x576 pixels, so there's no point using anything much more than that unless you intend doing a digital zoom later. The main problem will be the model. Most taxidermy is rigid, and to get any interesting motion, you'd need a model with articulated joints. It would be an interesting challenge for a taxidermist, and it might work very well, but there are no doubt several good reasons why Aleksandr isn't a real meerkat. (Actually, he's probably created entirely in software, but that's just cheating). :-) Best wishes, Paul Baker Supreme Commander Diabolus in Musica Historical musicians in costume Replica musical instruments and historical artifacts Interactives, websites, audio & video work [log in to unmask] www.diabolus.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "lindsey milnes" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:45 AM Subject: Simple Animation Software? Does anyone have a recommendation or experience of using simple animation process or software? The process will be used in CPD workshops for upper Primary, lower Secondary teachers. The theme is Biodiversity and the idea is to bring taxidermy to life through animation amongst other objectives. The programme would need to capture still images (children's drawings and collage) and then present them on screen(without any editing if possible). Any feedback would be much appreciated. Lindsey Milnes. Arts & Heritage Assistant, Touchstones, Rochdale. Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +