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Old November 9th 05, 08:31 PM
Kevin Karplus
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Default Need ideas for encouraging budding animator

On 2005-11-09, Carol Hulls wrote:
In article .com,
Robin wrote:
My son, 12yo, is showing an interest in, and some talent for, computer
animation.
...


If he is doing animations with PowerPoint, you may want to skip over
the idea of kid tools and just go with a regular tool. Macromedia
Flash would be my recommendation in this regard, if you can find an
...


Flash animation seems to be the popular approach for many of the
computer camps, so it is obviously easy enough to use for kids to do
something interesting.

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