Useful Downloads
Zu3D
Zu3D is a brand new piece of software for creating stop motion animations.
Developed in consultation with a professional animator and primary school children. It combines powerful features with a very intuitive and easy to use interface.
Paint.NETPaint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It
features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing
online community provides friendly help,
tutorials, and
plugins.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured.
Click on the "story telling alice" link and then click on "Download StorytellingAlice.zip". This should download a zip file containing Storytelling Alice to your computer, make sure you extract this file by clicking "Extract All". When this done you should be able to open Storytelling Alice by clicking on the "Alice" icon.
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Phun
Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University, Sweden. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction. It is great Phun!
Free Sound Effects
Download thousands of free sound effects from PartnersInRhyme.com. These are great to add to your plasticine animations and scratch games.