Let your creativity run wild....
Anithings is a brand new children's creativity tool. It enables animated stories to be created simply and quickly, allowing children's creativity to run wild. Try a Web Demo
Children can design and create their own characters and settings or use ready-made ones from the bank. Stories are animated by simply dragging the timeline slider and changing an object’s position, colour or size, or by recording motion using the mouse.
Animated stories can be created to link with any topic, be it Vikings, Pirates, Fairy tales or wherever your imagination takes you. The addition of speech bubbles to your characters enables a unique storytelling medium to enhance and build upon literacy skills. Add special effects to enhance mini masterpieces or use the storyboard to plan an epic movie.
Features
• Character creation – Objects can be combined to create Anithings characters. Drop shapes on top of each other to build up faces with eyes, mouths, etc. Snap objects together to make animated 'hinged' limbs. The bank contains a selection of ready-to-use characters which can be added by simply dragging and dropping.
• Storyboarding – Use the storyboard mode to plan an animated story. Add and arrange scenes, then choose backgrounds and characters.
• Recording motion – Simply press the 'Record' button and move characters. This movement will be captured and added to the animation.
• Tweening – Animations can also be created by setting an object's properties. Simply drag the timeline slider to the required time position and move the object to its new position. The object will now automatically be animated by moving to the new position when the 'play' button is pressed. Other properties such as size, transparency, colour and rotation can be added in the same way.
• Speech bubbles – Bring Anithing characters to life by using speech bubbles to help tell your story.
• Sharing online – Share your children's creations by uploading them or embedding them in a school's learning platform, website or blog.
Benefits
• Encourages children's creativity
• Great cross-curricular potential
• Simple to use
• Suitable for all primary age ranges
• Appropriate for SEN and EAL
