Any animation software for kids?

[Clive Menzies]

On (12/02/07 18:44), chombee wrote:
> Got this message today, it's from an organiser at my university who is
> arranging workshops run by postgrads for local primary schools. I would
> like to recommend some software, anyone know of anything?
> 
> ---
> 
> Hi David, Sean and Ianthe
> 
> Is any of you good with animations?
> 
> I had an idea for one hour workshop (repeated 4 times a day, 5-9
> April). 
> Basically, I would like kids to be able to create animations starting 
> from one of their own drawings (made on the computer) while at the same 
> time learning something about computing.
> 
> Do you have any ideas as to how I might implement this?
> 
> Do you know of a software package I could use?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

There is gimp-gap which I've not used:
Description: The GIMP Animation Package
 GAP is a collection of plug-ins to extend the GIMP with capabilities to
 edit
  and create animations and movies as sequences of single frames. It
  adds a
   Video menu to image windows in the GIMP.

Regards

Clive

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