Our new animation based workshop is quick, easy and most importantly a lot of fun. We found that after a quick test we were soon discussing the potential of this software with a little bit of time...
The workshop is based on freeware, namely PIXresizer and MonkeyJam, plus a minimum of kit that basically includes a digital camera, something sturdy to bolt or gaffer tape it to and some stuff to animate. For our examples we used words and pictures that were hanging around the office but as usual, imagination is the key.
I'll post our quick cheatsheet guide to using the software below.
While we're on the subject of animation, there's another free and very fun app called Scratch which as well as being free and offering great animations also introduces the user to world of code using "blocks" of "code" to control the environment. This is well worth checking out and I'm sure we'll find a way to incorporate this software into a workshop too.
Meantime please enjoy the software and if you need us to come and do some animation with you please get in touch. We'd also be very interested in featuring some of your work here too.
harri ani-MPEG-4 from chris mog on Vimeo. | Mogs' animation TEST from chris mog on Vimeo. |
Animation Workshop
