Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
So what do you do after creating the world’s smallest stop motion animation? Obviously create the world’s largest stop motion animation…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieN2vhslTTU&feature=player_embedded
How did they do that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fza5QdTfyxs&feature=player_embedded
The good people at Aardman have created a tiny animation using a Nokia phone and an adaptation of the CellScope technology originally created to give a microscope function to the phone’s camera for medical purposes.
How they did it…
The end result…
Wow!
Someone asked yesterday how to make sprites move up and down when using Scratch. I have not done anything with Scratch for a while so I was inspired to download the latest version and give it a whirl.
Scratch was developed at the [W:MIT Media Lab] Lifelong Kindergarten (doesn’t that sound like a great place to work?) and it provides a simple drag & drop means of building a [W:Java applet]. These can uploaded to the Scratch website and shared with others.
If Scratch is too basic for your needs then I can commend Greenfoot which is a step closer to proper Java programming. Another option is the RunRev’s RevMedia which uses an English like language. All of these options are free.
Although there are a lot of examples with Scratch there still seems to be a need for an introduction to creating a simple game. So here it comes 🙂
My infallible guide to Scratch page will answer some if not all of your questions.
We rarely get a good covering of snow so we have taken to taking any snowy day as a national holiday with businesses, schools and transport networks shutting down.
Building a Snow Lion (Bear?)…
Others were inspired otherwise 🙂
Stykz is a nice little animation programme…
[youtube 6ghwl9BxQ40&hl Stykz Demo]
…although you are not limited to animating stick people. A beta version for [W:Macintosh] is available with versions for [W:Windows] and [W:Linux] to follow shortly. It was created with Revolution which I once played around with as a replacement for [W:HyperCard] but I never did do much with it. So maybe it is time for another thirty day trial… and not get around to doing much with it 🙂