Toolbench: Multimedia Animation

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Animation
Title/Description Available Students Available Faculty Tutorials Reviews Examples Company List Cost Educ. Cost
Forms of Animation for Web pages free/fee free/fee
  • Web Monkey's Animation Tutorials
  • Web Developer's VL on GIF
  • Animation Foundry
  • ABC's of GIF
  • GIF Tutorial by Royal Frazier
  • Web animation
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  • Animator 3.0 $39
  • Macromedia Fireworks

    • Macromedia Flash
  • Mining Co. list of galleries
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    Infini-D 4.5 " makes 3D animation feel like second nature, featuring the perfect balance of professional animation features, high-end special effects, and broadcast quality output, all within a celebrated, intuitive working environment." demo same . . An example of this program in use is Old Town San Diego historical virtual reality model of the 1850 Wrightington adobe in Old Town San Diego(1.8 meg). . . .
  • Fireworks (from Macromedia) "is the only web graphic design software you need! Fireworks' suite of text, design, illustration, image editing, URL, JavaScript, and animation tools can create everything for your web site, without jumping from application to application. Designers can optimize and preview final output in every popular format. Everything is editable, all the time. Draw using organic brushes, and create unlimited shapes and objects. Then go back and edit the strokes at any time! Fireworks brings the best features of a vector drawing program to the web!"

    •      		 demo same . . . . . .
    LogoMotion users create "professional-quality 3D flying text and logos. Hundreds of pre-animated cameras,lights, and 3D props called StageHands are available for drag-and-drop construction of 3D animations - eliminating the need to keyframe animations by hand. Whether logo and text animations are needed for multimedia productions, business presentations, or ShockWave web pages, LogoMotion provides an easy, worry-free solution." demo same . . . Macromedia . .
    Amapi 3D "is a popular modeler for use with Kinetix 3D Studio MAX, Electric Image, Strata Studio Pro, SoftImage and other animation/rendering platforms. Plus, now you can work with either the exclusive Natural Design Interface™ or a standard tools palette!" demo . . . .  TGS . .
    SceneryAnimator

    Examples Using 3-D Animation

    General Animation Resources on the Web

  • Animation, by the Mining Company
  • Animation: definition and history, by the Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Animation Express, Lycos
  • Animation Factory
  • Animation World Network, a trade magazine and trade site for animation professionals
  • Aardman's Virtual Tour of their Animation Design Studio
  • AIDS Data Animation Project, an example communicating statistics with animation
  • Role of Animation during the Limited Bandwidth Internet Era
  • Planning Animation
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    Professor Contact Information
    College of Education and Allied Professions
    Phone: (704) 227-7108
    Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 28723

    Pub.: Updated March 11, 1999. 
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