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Cuppa Coffee Wants Your Shorts

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - Permalink

This is a great opportunity for some of you aspiring animators to get a foot in the industry: Cuppa Coffee wants your animated shorts. They are looking for exciting talent to be part of a new animated television and web series for a teen and up audience. Detais and submission information is available on their website. The deadline is May 1st, 2007.

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Jess Riegel: The Haircut

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - Permalink

This is a crazy stop-motion that was made last Saturday, all in one day. My housemate Elie and I came up with the idea, and I set to work animating his, uh, body.

Very bizarre, but quite nice: Watch the movie...

Karotoons: What do you do at christmas this year?

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - Permalink

Katrin Rothe answers this question in 9 cutout animations she cut together into a 4 minute movie, available in iPod format from her website. The animation has been received enthusiastically when opening for a short film festival at the Central in Berlin.

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TES: "Moulding movie talent"

Friday, January 26, 2007 - Permalink

Stephen Manning reports on the BETT booth for Times Educational Supplement (TES) in the January 19th edition:

Year 9 and 10 pupils at King Harold school, a comprehensive in Waltham Abbey, Essex, demonstrated their prowess with clay animation at last week's BETT show in London - the highlight of the technology in education calendar.

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BETT 2007

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - Permalink

January 10th - 13th, Olympia London -

At this year's BETT show in London, our friends from Cleveratom showed off iStopMotion at the Create at BETT booth. They were helped by students from King Harolds School: "As ever, King Harold School pupils were brilliant! Their enthusiasm, infectious energy and determination to succeed meant that the stand never had a dull moment", writes Hal Maclean. Digitalcreativity.org reports:

At the other end of the stand young people worked to demonstrate the brilliant iStopMotion animation software and the potential for using creative technology in the classroom. iStopMotion is so simple and easy to use, yet so powerful too. A wonderful piece of innovative software.

Images from the Setup by Matthew Eaves of Cleveratom
Hal Maclean's images from Create at BETT with children from King Harold School
Hal's report from BETT.
Reflections on a busy show at digitalcreativity.org with more pictures from the show and movies made with iStopMotion.

(Pictures by Hal Maclean)

O'Reilly Radar: "Why Johnny Can't Program"

Friday, January 19, 2007 - Permalink

Nat Torkington, writing for the O'Reilly Radar, thinks that using iStopMotion builds essential skills for programmers and used it in a three week computer class for 7 to 10 year old students from his kid's primary school who aspired to learn programming:

Programming is all about reducing big problems to small and easy tasks. So I paired up kids on two Macs I brought from home, and we used iStopMotion to build stop-motion animations. This teaches them to think in terms of small steps, while at the same time they become familiar with the computers. And, best of all, it's enormous fun.

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Zirkusofia: Las Kukiz se Animaron

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - Permalink

Zirkusofia: "Las Kukiz se Animaron".

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Steve Trash: Rockin' Eco Hero

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - Permalink

Steve Trash has been a professional ecological entertainer, kid comedian, and illusionist for over 25 years with appearances on CBS THIS MORNING, ESPN'S OUTDOORS and CNBC'S AMERICA'S TALKING. Now he is podcasting right from his home in Frog Pond, Alabama. Episodes 2 ("PT Cruiser & Flying Hiking Boots") and 5 ("Tiny Bottoms Trash TV NEWS") contain iStopMotion animation sequences.

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From Seattle to San Francisco and back

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - Permalink

Chuck Goolsbee of digital.forest loves long distance driving and took his car on the road to Macworld San Francisco. He time lapsed the southbound and the northbound journey and wrote a travel log. Interesting details such as doing an average 90mph on the first hour of the northbound trip. Also on his website a short time lapse of the dawn over the digital.forest offices.