Avatar And Animated Video Fun - Michigan Digital Learning

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Avatar and Animated Video Fun
CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM‐SOLVING, INNOVATION & CREATIVITY PROJECTS, COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION, WITH DIGITAL IMAGES AND VIDEO
Go!Animate, Extranormal, CrazyTalk
Animator
Standards
1. Creativity and Innovation ‐ Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Communication and collaboration ‐ Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making ‐Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
6. Technology Operations and Concepts ‐ technology concepts, systems, and operations. b. Select and use applications effectively and productively
c. Troubleshoot systems and applications
http://www.wimpyourself.com/
• Exports as png
Creating Avatars – handouts @
12. Digital Images – 21things4students.net • www.wimpyourself.com – create one free without creating an account. • Doppelme.com
• Weeworld.com
• Build your Wildself
Doppleme
http://doppelme.com/
• Free
• No flash or ActiveX
• Some can be used without an account
• Some items can be tinted with color
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WeeMee!
http://www.weeworld.com/
• Screenshot it or create
an account
Build your Wildself
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
• New York Zoos and Acquarium
• Email the image
http://goanimate.com/
Animations
Go!Animate
Free <2 min,
10 dialog lines
No export or download
Paid account can be 4.50 per month
• Step‐by‐step
1. Select a setting
2. Choose 2 characters
3. Type or record your dialog – up to 20
4. Watch your masterpiece!
• Preview then Save – Publish – Doesn’t save unless you create an account
Use our Video Maker to create videos for free.
Make a viral video.
Create an animated lesson for your class.
Make a demo video of your product, a promotional video for your business or a training video for your staff.
• Quick Video Makers are great for getting started quickly. Choose a background, choose some characters, type or record your dialogue and press play
• Ninja, Space, Business…
• School accounts are available
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www.xtranormal.com
• 3D animated movies
• Desktop download • Classroom accounts ‐ $10 per teacher, .50 per student = PER MONTH cost – privacy for class accounts
• Have to buy points, 2
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Animate characters in PowerPoint
• The avatars created can be used in PowerPoint and using the animation effects, can be recorded using a screen recorder such as Camtasia Studio or ScreencastOmatic, and narrated.
CrazyTalk Animator
• Reallusion
http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/animator/
• Standard: 49.95
• Pro: $179.95
• Easily create actors from full‐body photosReal‐time animation puppeteering & auto lip‐syncComplete 2D animation with actors, props, SFX &
real 3D cameraAdvanced timeline editing for complete
animation control
• Not a quick tool to learn!
Poem example
Early Ages
Miscellaneous and fun
Toontastic
http://launchpadtoys.com/toontastic/
• Press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your stories through play! Once you’re done, Toontastic will play back your animation and voice as a cartoon for you to share. Demo video
• 3‐D book ‐
• http://www.zooburst.com/ a digital storytelling tool to create your own 3D pop‐up books.
• The stories live online and can be watched on a desktop, portable, iPad (free mobile app). • Arrange characters and props in a 3D world that you can customize and upload with your own artwork or from their database.
• Augmented reality mode occurs when you have a webcam where you can interact with gestures (waving to turn pages for example). • Zooburst books can be ‘attached’ to physical items such as your bulletin board.
• In less than 10 minutes!
• Premium account 9.99/mo to add sound
• Fun and funny things
• MISD demo
Free: Sock Puppets
& Puppet Pals ‐ iPad
• Sock Puppets ‐ Create your own lip‐synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip‐
synch to your voice.
• Puppet Pals ‐ Create an actor from a photo, add a backdrop photo, zoom and rotate characters, flip, capture audio recording with it and playback later.
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Kerpoof.com
• Disney
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