For Teachers

• Easy handling and cool features like Onion Skinning, Live Video Preview, Blinking and easy Editing.
• Can be used in all classes and subjects.
• Save money - all you need is a Mac, a webcam or DV camera and iStopMotion to get started.
• Download the software, enter the license key that you receive via email, and begin. No shipping costs or time.
• Find copious information, examples and lesson plans about animation on the web.
• Children of all ages can use iStopMotion, and are fascinated by stop motion animation.
• Create time lapse movies that will make slow processes more interesting to your students.

For Students

• Easy to use - Students learn how to use iStopMotion very fast.
• They see the results of their work immediately.
• Working in groups is easier and students learn team skills.
• Students can develop original ideas and techniques.
• Learning while having fun - watching and creating films is a lot more interesting than presentations.
• Share their movies with friends, family and other schools.
• Other skills improve such as research for the project on the internet, Students get used to the computer, language required to communicate the ideas.

I use iStopMotion in school arts residencies for clay animation and animation projects. Students of all ages quickly learn to capture, save, and transfer their work to video editing programs such as iMovie. Mistakes and reshoots are almost unheard of because of the 'onion skinning' feature. My residencies are often planned with only a week of student contact time, so I can't use a program that takes long time to learn. With iStopMotion the students are capturing their clay animation movements or animation drawings during the first session.

Duane Barnhart,

Cartoon Connections

Boinx Ani-mat

Ani-mats are a cool invention by ICT Links. They provide a guide for making great clay figures while being an easy to clean mat for modeling the figures on, protecting whatever surface lies beneath. ICT Links' Deborah Stewart made one especially for Boinx Software with the clay figure from the home page. Download here (1.8 MB JPG), print out on an A3 color printer and laminate.