Interesting links Con .. I might give Synfig a closer look. Am curious if it can import SVG graphics.<br><br>My students had a lot of fun using <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape </a>(free to DL and share) to generate their own SVG and PNG clip art .. converting their favourite photographs into cartoon like outlines then further manipulating the layers and objects in these images. Others might like to have a go at this using the handout that I have developed ..
<br><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=2964">http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=2964</a><br><br>I was interested to read that like GIF and Flash, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg">
SVG standard</a> includes an animation component. Scaleable Vector Graphics are used by Inkscape, Freehand and other graphical packages. Some browsers can already support SVG graphics and perhaps soon, SVG animations.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/06/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Con Zymaris</b> <<a href="mailto:conz@cyber.com.au">conz@cyber.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:13:35AM +1000, Mclean, Rachelle L wrote:<br>> If they have never done animation before you might want to start with a<br>> really simple animation program like Pivot Stickfigure Animator (free)
<br>> or Gif Animator (free). Because students have to create each frame,<br>> without the benefits of tweening, I think they not only appreciate that<br>> function in Flash better but have a better understanding of how an
<br>> animation is constructed.<br>><br><br>Or, for something different:<br><br> <a href="http://www.synfig.com/">http://www.synfig.com/</a><br> <a href="http://ktoon.toonka.com/">http://ktoon.toonka.com/</a><br><br>
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