Animation-ish

Animation-ish is an easy-to-use animation software program that inspires creativity and enables children to "show what they know."

Sparks creative thinking and imagination! Provides engaging activities that integrate creativity across the curriculum. Helps teachers enliven lessons and improve understanding through visual representation. Boosts technology literacy skills. Supports beginner web-authoring skills and graphic design.

Product Features

Animation-ish includes three levels that provide students from K-12 (and teachers too!) with a fun, rewarding experience that fosters the ability to animate across the curriculum with confidence! It’s a wonderful presentation tool for teachers and students.

wiggledoodle-ish, flipbook-ish, advanced-ish

Wiggledoodle-ish provides a simple set of tools to draw, trace, and animate with just three frames. You can also import and trace any graphic. Creative and fun! Flipbook-ish includes an infinite number of frames so you can create longer animations that teach or "show what you know." Advanced-ish introduces the mover tool, which allows for more complex animations using foregrounds, backgrounds, and movement across the screen.

Animation-ish also includes:ish videos

Curriculum-based activities aligned to national standards. Over 50 "Inspire Me" video clips featuring Peter H. Reynolds. "Project Vault" filled with Peter's drawings and starter ideas. Online animation lessons from Peter and the animators at FableVision. "Share" feature for one-click exporting in multiple formats, including .swf, .mov, .avi and more. "Import" feature for incorporating bitmap images. Vector-based lines, pressure sensitive drawing, tweening, and tracing.

Animation-ish comes with great classroom activities and samples, but here are just a few films we've received from educators who came up with their own ideas for fun cross-curricular animations!