Pencil – Free Animation Software

I had to share this new one!!  It’s called Pencil.  http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/  It’s an animation software application really designed for Macs, but works well on PCs too.  Do you have students who can draw and want to make real hand-drawn animations. Those students who thrive in Art Classes or creative hands-on projects (so me) will have creative outlets in other classes if they are given the opportunity to tap into their learning style preference.  They could make you some great content based animations or cartoons.  See if you can get some students to learn it and test it out.

It is quite simple to use.  See the User Manual http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=UserManual  for more detail.  I just drew my first character added some key frames and a sound and it really didn’t take much.  Check it out. 

Have fun!!