Learn how Pixar creates animated movies in their free online course
Disney Pixar and Khan Academy have teamed up to create a free online course, called Pixar in a Box, that teaches students how their movies are made, from the initial art…
The amazing animations that can be achieved in Apple’s Keynote app
Presentations are a great teaching tool and you may be surprised just how exciting they can be. Linda Dong, a user interface designer, experimented with Apple’s Keynote app to see how…
Simple, colourful animation with Easy Studio
If you’re looking for an iPad app to introduce children to animation, look no further than Easy Studio. Using over 40 basic shapes as a starting-off point, you can build…
Printed GIFs: From the digital world to a physical product
In many card shops, you’ll occasionally come across a card that looks like it’s moving when you tilt it from side-to-side.
Using probability to solve the frog riddle
There’s a lot of things in life that can’t be predicted with total certainty and that’s where probability comes in. This technique is used to calculate how likely something is…
Giphy: The easiest way to create your own GIFs
Although GIFs have been around for many years, they have had a recent surge in popularity due to the rise of social media.
Video series teaches you how to animate like Disney
Over the course of 12 YouTube videos, animator John Becker teaches you techniques used by Disney animators to create life-like characters and objects for their feature films. This includes squash…
Bring learning to life on the iPad with iStopMotion
Stop motion animation is a style of movie making that involves single photographs of an object in various positions that, when stitched together, appear as though the inanimate object has…
Hopscotch: Learn and have fun with the basics of coding
Inspired by the very successful website “Scratch“, Hopscotch brings simple coding to the iPad — allowing children to get creative by making fun animations and games.
Animated video explains everything you need to know about Planet Earth
Planet Earth is this solid thing you are standing on right now and it’s just a very, very small part of the big picture.
BrainPOP’s animated videos help pupils learn something new everyday
The BrainPOP app is a mobile version of the very successful BrainPOP website that lets you learn something new everyday for free.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The story of the Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is based on the Oscar-winning animation of the same name.