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History of Animation

Animation Schools

Animation Tutorials

Cartoonster
Animation Mentor - Online Training
Caligari TrueSpace 3 Free Download
Caligari True Space 7.6 Free Download
3D modelling and animation program
Maya - Personal Learning Edition

Kool Products

Eye Think Inc.
Flipbook
Flipomania
Click on SHOP to see the flipbooks!
Flippies Custom Made Flipbooks
Animation Factory
UnFreez - Free Gif Animator
Pivot STick Animator
PipeCleaner Animation
Instructables: Easy, Cheap, Animation
You Can Create Your Own Flipbook from photos!
Xiberpix
Cool Free tools
Serif
Cool animation products
Free Serif Software
Older Versions but great to get started on for Free!
KToon 2D Animation
Go Animate
July 2008
Animasher
Scratch
More of a "programming" program but has animation capability
DoInk
Kerpoof
Kinemac 3D Animator for MAC
Awesome but expensive!
Anime Studio For MAC and PC
$49 but educators get 50% discount

Animation Websites

Animation World Network
Animation Arena
Random Motion
Mish Mash Media
Aardman
Siggraph
Alan
Animation LInks Galore
10 Second Club
Virtual Art Room - Animations
Dfilm
Create your own online video!
My Toons
Pencil
Free, open source drawing and animation program for PC and Mac
Fluxtime Studio
Best Sties for Creating Online Animations
Larry Ferlazzo list
Oakey

Persistance of Vision

Animations

World's Oldest Animation?

Anmation Career Books

Learning to Draw

Preston Blair Course Online

Aids to Animation

Stop Motion Animation

Flash Animations

Animax Interactive

3D Animation

Anim8or
Free
Elephants Dream
Created entirely using Free Open Source Software
Blender
Free Open Source 3D content creator
HASH
ZenCub3D
MovieStorm
Galactic Soft
Alice
Google SketchUp
Reallusion: IClone3

Using Cartoons in Education

InToon
Mike Keefe Political Cartoons; check out his talking heads
Cagle Political Cartoons
Also includes Teacher Guide
Cartoons in the Classroom
Science Cartoons Plus
Sydny Harris Cartoons

Online Articles

Students Become Animated, Drawing Connections to Lessons
Technology&Learning Ezine article
Technology makes art education a bigger draw !
eSchool News Article
Getting Animated
Games Move Towards Creation
Animation Creates Life
The.Journal article
Visual Art Units
Mark Gura article

Supporting Programs

MorphVox
changes your voice
Audacity
Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Celtx
all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production.

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