Create animated movies and stories in a flash with this innovative software.

Anithings is a new creativity tool which enables children to build animated movies and stories quickly and simply. A range of characters and backgrounds are included to get you started. Drag them on to the screen and animate them by simply recording motion with the mouse then use the microphone to add sound to your characters and bring your story to life.

Children can create their own characters and backgrounds by combining shapes, drawing, or importing pictures. The innovative bolting and hinging tool allows characters to be animated with lifelike movements.

More advanced animation effects can be created by adding simple motion, size or colour ‘tweens’ using the time line slider. The speed of creation allows animations to be created to tie in with any topic and used as a creativity tool throughout the curriculum. Anithings animations can be published, shared via a website or learning platform and exported as a Flash file.

Features

• Characters – The bank contains a selection of ready to animate characters for a range of topics, including fairy tales, pirates, animals, dinosaurs and many more. Children can also create their own characters by combining shapes. Drop one on top of another to combine or attach with hinges using the bolting tool. Characters and shapes can also be drawn using the pen tool or created from digital pictures.
• Backgrounds – Choose a background form the selection in the bank or import a picture to use. Children can use digital cameras to take photos of their local environments and use them as backgrounds to their stories and movies.
• Animating – Simply click record to capture motion or use the timeline tool to animate a character’s position, size or colour.
• Audio – Adding sound brings your animation to life. Use a microphone to record narration, sound effects or add voices to individual characters.
• Storyboarding – Use the storyboard mode to plan an animated story. Add and arrange scenes, then choose backgrounds and characters.
• Sharing – Share your children’s creations by publishing and embedding them in a website or learning platform. Animations can also be exported as Flash files.

Benefits

• Develops children’s thinking skills and creativity
• Great cross-curricular potential
• Simple yet powerful to use
• Suitable for all primary age ranges
• Appropriate for SEN and EAL

For further information and to access a free trial of the software, please visit www.anithings.com/lightbox