speckytecky Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 We have a couple of students who want to enter the UK Schools Computer Animation Competition, which is apparently running using the following software: Alice - keeps crashing. Scratch - students feel it's limited. Flash - we only have the Flash reader apparently there is a free month trial of the full version? Serif Draw Plus - apparently costs £80. No money in the budget. Anyone any experience or suggestions on this please.
featured_spectre Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Why does alice keep crashing? Whats the cause?
pete Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Does an animated .gif count? Say The Gimp Animation Package? GIMP - Using GAP
SYNACK Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 What level of students, there is blender for the hardcore 3d animators out there.
garyjepp Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Pencil - Pencil - a traditional 2D animation software Again, it's a bit limited, but might be an option. That said, if they don't feel Scratch is powerful enough they probably won't like this. It is free, though!
CESIL Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I looked at entering this last year but they are just too restrictive on the software allowed. I tried a couple of the suggested apps but they made animation just too tedious even for me with my prodigious levels of patience...year 6 pupils would have been bored within nanoseconds... I think the schools in our area are going to be running their own local competition with a free choice of software...
speckytecky Posted March 9, 2011 Author Posted March 9, 2011 Thanks for all the very useful answers. Checking with the Competition organisers they tell me it's only those programmes listed in the OP that are allowed. I'm trying to find out from the lass what the problem was with Alice. Looking at Adobe I see 2 things. First there's an online store for Educational use with pretty massive discounts but it seems to be North American only? Secondly there is a trial version of Flash but nothing about how long the trial period is and I suspect that once signed up it may be a case of frequent sales calls?
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