TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Two Ways to Animate Slam Poetry
Slam poetry packs an emotional punch by using powerful verbal metaphors; animation can do the same using visual tools. TED-Ed animators show how two separate techniques- rotoscoping and more traditional hand-drawn animation- bring to...
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Khan Academy: Start Here! Animation
This is an introduction to the animation topic. In this topic, we'll explore how animators bring characters to life with the help of animation curves. This topic contains two lessons: Lesson 1: Introduction to animation curves (all ages)...
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Khan Academy: Straight Ahead Animation (Practice)
Try to make an animation of a bouncing ball by positioning the ball in each frame.
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Khan Academy: Animation 101 (Practice)
This is a 7-problem quiz/practice bouncing a ball using the squash and stretch with Bezier curves.
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Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
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Khan Academy: Save Your Animation
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
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Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.
Begin your career as an animator now! This instructional activity is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.
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Akemi's Anime World: Anime Faq
This site from Akemi's Anime World offers answers to some commonly asked questions about anime, including what anime is, the reason for certain stylistic characteristics, and much more.