How Kids Can Create Stop Motion Animation With Windows 7

My son loves to create stop motion animation with Lego and used Windows Movie Maker on previous incarnations of Windows, including XP and Vista, I was surprised to find him there on the recent purchase of Windows 7 For unknown reasons, Microsoft decided to fix this incredibly practical application of the basic installation and did an additional download. Maybe they want more hits on your web site?

To download the latest version of Windows Movie Maker, it is recommended by Microsoft to download the Windows Live Suite. What you get is a slimmed down version of an old movie, but for simple animation that's all you need (for serious users try Movie Maker version 2.6). Installation, look around and then get ready for animation.

As I mentioned earlier, my son loves to make Lego stop motion animation so that the context in which I will explain how to make an animation with this version of the film. After taking pictures with a camera, import them into Windows and save it somewhere handy.

then open Windows Movie Maker and select the tab (should already be the default choice), and then select Add videos and photos. Clicking on the first image to animation, and then pressing the Shift key and click on the last picture of your animation you will be able to import all the images at once. Not only that, but they will be put in order that they took.

then press the play button. Chances are your images will each play for about 5 seconds. This is great for slide travel lock, but not so good for moving images are still frames, so it seems to move in animation.

Using the same click / Shift-click method mentioned above, now select all the images as they appear in the window next to the screen that plays video. Now select the Edit tab and goto frame Trajanje.Padajući menu you select the duration for each frame, starting at one second. It's way too long for us, but fortunately you can specify smaller amounts. I put in 0.10 as the duration.

You can now add the title of his first animation by selecting the box and use tab, in the Title and Description options. Use the Visual Effects tab to disappear in his first animation frame to get things moving smoothly, and then do the same at the end of the animation.

Adding music is a breeze. Simply return to the Home tab, select Add music and select MP3 election. Save your project often, especially if a large file. Then to create the movie file, select Publish clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of the screen. You can also choose to publish instantly to YouTube, or save in various formats.

Creating a simple stop motion animation with Windows 7 is fast and easy. With the new program provided Windows Movie Maker, kids can begin their film careers with a few clicks.

Want To Play Online Naruto Games?

A number of the sequence of Japanese Manga, Naruto is one of the most widely watched the episode and go all the way to complete world. His story is based on a ninja named Naruto Uzumaki, whose strong to strive always to grow to be the leader of the village, the Hokage. Because of its popularity and strong story, she reached for a generation of fans groups such as children, regardless of gender, and favors. Even some adults like this anime sequence, then enter the web community talking about their numbers, upcoming episodes and actively playing online Naruto game titles as well.

You can find plenty of sites that provide this type of online, free Naruto video game, which is usually performed on the Internet web page, therefore, must not download or install anything on the user's computer.

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Another good thing about these titles is the fact that it encourages the players mind and a positive teamwork environment. For example, the Star Student Naruto video games, Sasuke and Sakura must escort Tazuna safely to his home in the land of waves. However, they must work together to ensure the opponents in their own way. Players can choose their very own character and let the journey begin. In other games, such as Naruto and Naruto Dating title Olympics online game, avid gamers can meet other great features flash purposes without obtaining the use of a joystick controller or complicated.

These games are titles like all families alike, especially because of the many special characters as this type of Sasori, Sakura, Gaara, Hinata, and Tenten. In addition to these female figures, there are popular male characters, such as Hidan, Itachi, Pain, Rock Lee, Sasuke as the main Naruto. They all have their expertise with regard to the fight, and in general can be discussed among the group of fans on the internet community.

Fan-Made Superman Animated Film Short

One of the BEST Man of Steel Films in Last Few Years

[Source: Syfy] Robb Pratt has worked in animation for years, on movies like Tarzan and TV shows like Kim Possible. So it's no wonder that his love letter to Superman has such flair. Taking the music from old Superman serials, and recruiting TV's Superboy (John Newton) for the voice of Clark, Pratt concocted a one-minute prequel to an alien invasion that begs for more.

A Kiss From Tokyo

A Secret Agent Aniboom Animation by Stephane

"A Kiss From Tokyo" is a Theatrical Trailer staged in 1964 - Yuki 7 dashes around the world in hot pursuit of the evil Diamond Eye, who is leaving a path of murdered scientists in her quest to build a missile inside her volcanic lair.

Oscuro Cardinal

A Make Believe Aniboom Animation by Adrian

On a visit out to the country, two children run off to play a game of make believe war. They come across the remains of an armored tank, at a place where a terrible battle had been fought. A series of strange events occur and the children learn what a real war is really like.

Dead Space: Downfall

The nightmare returns...

Dead Space 2 is out. Experience the terror of the animated tale "Downfall."

[Source: Wikipedia] The film revolves around the mining ship Ishimura as it arrives in the vicinity of an alien world. The crew of the Ishimura discover an object, which is referred to as the "Marker". It is brought aboard by order of Captain Mathius and Dr. Kyne. A week passes and a rash of violent attacks between the miners and other crew begin to rise in numbers. Hostilities begin to break out as members of the religious group, the "Unitologists", beg for a glimpse of the Marker, a key icon in their belief.
 

Meanwhile, on the planet, two miners check an outpost that has gone silent while the Ishimura brings up a chunk of the planet to mine. The men discover something amiss and one goes in search of his girlfriend, while his partner vanishes during a blackout. In the girlfriend's room, the man watches in shock as his beloved commits suicide. As the man flees the facility, he is unaware of an alien presence attaching itself to his deceased lover.

Onboard the Ishimura, Alissa Vincent, head of security, demands that Mathius allow an investigation of the recent outbreak of violence. But Mathius remains firm in the belief that nothing is amiss. The vessel piloted by the surviving miner crashes into the hangar just as he cuts communication and is killed by his mutated girlfriend. Vincent and her team are dispatched to contain the situation but discover nothing aboard the small ship, then depart to find out what caused the crash. Kyne suggest they call for help, but Mathius says that Aegis VII is a restricted area and they are not supposed to be there.

Down in the sickbay, a man awakes to discover alien creatures mutating the various corpses in the morgue, only to be killed. The situation turns grim all through the ship as the chaos and body count rise, as Mathius demands order. Kyne says that the Marker is responsible, but Mathius is in denial because he would have to put the Marker back and face court martial if the government knew they were in the restricted system. A confrontation between Mathius and Kyne leads to Mathius being accidentally killed by Kyne, who then flees. Vincent and her team arrive at the morgue where a Necromorph kills a teammate before being dispatched.

Things become chaotic as Vincent and her team struggle to make their way back to safety, but are confronted by a horde of Necromorphs. When it looks like conventional weapons are useless, an engineer named Samuel Irons arrives on the scene with a mining tool and cuts down the creatures. A member of the team named Hanson goes insane and murders fellow teammate Shen, after which Hanson and Vincent have a brief fight ending with Hanson being shot in the head by Ramirez. Returning to the deck, Vincent, Irons, and remaining member Ramirez discover that Kyne is planning to crash the ship into the planet below.

On their way to confront Kyne, Vincent and the others discover survivors being attacked by Necromorphs and go to save them. Using himself as bait, Irons buys time for Vincent and Ramirez to extract the scared crew members before being killed and turned into a Necromorph himself. The survivors are overwhelmed by more Necromorphs and Ramirez sacrifices himself to give Vincent a head start for the control room where Kyne is hiding. Vincent confronts Kyne who claims what he has done was necessary and steals her weapon as she tries to save the ship.

Vincent finds herself surrounded by numerous Necromorphs. She then discovers that the creatures cannot come into close proximity with the artifact, but Vincent doesn't care and breaks down. Spurred on by a brief vision of Ramirez, Vincent leaves a video log that details the entire events up until now. She downloads the video log she made into the distress beacon and opens the airlock and activates the distress beacon on a downed shuttle just a few feet from the marker. The distress beacon then fires outwards into space and along with it, several of the Necromorphs and herself.

As the film draws to a close, Vincent's body drifts into the darkness as the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" plays. The story ends just as the Kellion arrives and prepares to dock on the Ishimura, the beginning of Dead Space.

Young Justice - New Clips

Tonight's episode "Welcome to Happy Harbor"

 

Plot 

After Speedy declines to join the new team, Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash fear YOUNG JUSTICE is just a big joke… while new member Miss Martian fears there’s no room for her to be part of it. So when the four heroes and Superboy come up against Mister Twister, it looks like all their fears have just been realized... [Source: ToonZone]

Don't Miss Clone Wars this Friday Night

The Conclusion of the Night Sisters Trilogy...

Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network have released the following clip from "Witches of the Mist," the newest upcoming episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiering on Friday, January 21, 2011, at 8:30 PM (Eastern/Pacific). Click the image to play:

 

The full press announcement follows, with a new still from the episode and comments by voice actors Corey Burton (Count Dooku), Nika Futterman (Asajj Ventress), and Clancy Brown (Savage Opress). 

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Savage Opress proves to be a valuable asset and fearsome opponent
in “Witches of the Mist,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
remiering at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network.
TM & © 2011 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved.

The Must-See Conclusion to an Epic Three-Part Clone Wars Arc – This Friday on Cartoon Network!(click to enlarge)Savage Opress proves to be a valuable asset and fearsome opponentin “Witches of the Mist,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARSremiering at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network.TM & © 2011 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. 

Sent to track down the mysterious figure behind the deaths of several Jedi, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves on the trail of Count Dooku’s newest apprentice – the monstrous Savage Opress. However, Dooku and Asajj Ventress discover that their creation has a will of his own, and that he has grown more powerful than either of them had anticipated – perhaps even more powerful than the combined forces of the Jedi and the Sith. The end begins in “Witches of the Mist,” the final chapter of a thrilling, three-part Clone Wars arc – airing at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network. 

Driven by the Machiavellian machinations of Count Dooku, the series’ various villains come face to face at last in a climactic clash of red sabers. Dooku, Opress and Ventress – all are manifestations of evil, yet each is so distinct. It’s not until these three titans are brought together in the heat of conflict, however, that their nuances and differences become truly clear. 

“With Dooku, the series' direction is pushing his character more towards that of a masterful diplomat, concealing a sinister agenda beneath a veil of polite sophistication,” says Corey Burton, voice of Dooku – and countless other Clone Wars characters, both good and evil. “He's a subversive political overlord – a major marketing force and seducer for the dark side ‘brand.’ It's all about his personal enrichment, power and position within the hierarchy; there's nothing intentionally cruel or vengeful in his manner, or behind his dastardly actions – as a Sith Lord, it's just how things are done to most efficiently preside over the fate of the galaxy. Mustache-twirling displays are beneath his sense of dignity.” 

While Dooku is as consumed by his quest for power as he is by his own sense of sophistication, Ventress is wholly unconcerned by the niceties of evil. Driven by a desire for revenge, her motivation is raw and real – a product and a reflection of her own difficult past. 

“She’s been wronged by so many, and I believe her experiences will lead her in an even more powerful direction,” says Nika Futterman, voice of Ventress. “We are finally beginning to understand what makes Asajj tick; I think this is her quest for revenge and not power like the Sith. That’s what separates her. She does things that may seem like her quest for power, but, I think she aligned herself with the dark side as a means to an end. She doesn’t ever forget who has done right by her and, of course, who has done her wrong. All this time, I had hoped that I would be able to delve into what made her so fabulous and complex. It turns out my hopes are coming true!” 

Serving as a foil for the final confrontation between the former master and his jilted apprentice is the massively powerful Opress. Ostensibly a blunt instrument of evil, the monstrous creation is nonetheless imbued with a perverse humanity of his own – brought to the surface by sharp writing and a soulful performance by screen legend Clancy Brown (Highlander, The Shawshank Redemption). 

“I'd been a fan of The Clone Wars since the first season; and then caught up with the second season with my son,” says Brown. “He was excited because it was Star Wars and I was excited about the role not just because it was in the Star Wars universe but because the writing is so sophisticated. There was never any question from me about Savage's motives and what was going on because I was familiar with the characters, and you can go another layer deeper.” [Source: ToonZone]

RPG Metanoia

The Philippine's first full length animated film in 3D

RPG Metanoia took 4 years to make with a crew of about 26 animators. Thaumatrope Animation began work in 2007. In 2008, a teaser trailer for the movie (then titled "theRPGmovie") was shown at Level Up's Ragnarok Online event at the World Trade Center. In August 2009, Ambientmedia officially partnered with ABS-CBN. In June 2010, it was announced to be an official entry for the 36th Metro Manila Film Festival. In August 2010, RPG: Metanoia's official website was launched. The Cinema Evaluation Board gave the movie a Grade A. [Source: Wikipedia]
 
RPG Metanoia is about a young boy name Nico (voiced by Zaijan Jaranilla) who is obsessed with playing online video games. He is encouraged by his father (voiced by Aga Muhlach); however, his mother (voiced by Eugene Domingo) worries if Nico’s passion for video games will be good for his future. 

The film premiered on Christmas Day, December 25, 2010, and received several awards from the Metro Manila Film Festival.

Links:

• Official website
• RPG: Metanoia on Facebook
• CG Animation News in the Philippines: 'RPG Metanoia' at AnimationInsider.net

Predator's Teenage Son

When training your son to hunt goes totally wrong...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The Tired City

Overworked, Underappreciated Heroine of Anime

Synopsis 

The story happens to a busy office girl, and her story can also be your story. She is a character from a fairy tale: sweet, dedicated and rather naive. Facing the owner of Tired Out Incorporation, Bossie, and to earn her living, she pours herself into her work everyday, proficient, no complaints and never says no. The flower in the office is her only joy. But she has no time for it, or her friends or family... then the flower wilts and she comes to realize the true meaning of living... 

Artists Biography 

Postgal Workshop is a multimedia and animation creation team; its client portfolio includes Coca Cola, Nike, Nokia, DHL , Levis, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and East Asian Games, etc on their mascot design, keyart design, animation and multimedia works.Postgals been interviewed by Taiwan XFUN, Computer Arts and design book series Taschen, been invited to the Milia Digital conference in Cannes, France, Kinolab in Poland, HK TVB, FM 903 and HK Baptist University to share their view in design & animation field as guest speaker. Adobe CS3 and HKAC has held a workshop in early 2008 and Postgals director John has been invited for tutoring the animation classes. Postgal is also one of the judges for coca cola art bottle competition.Postgals works have been awarded in HK IFVA, San Francisco Flash Forward Film Festival, Korea Senef Film Festival and Switzerland Fantoche Film Festvail, etc, moreover, its works have been screened in Hong Kong International Film Festival, Taiwan Animation Festival and Japan JVC TV Festival, etc.Postgals latest creation is to create a mascot family for a famous beverage brands Hung Fong Took, along with its comics and animation for its 2008 promotion campaign. Meanwhile, we have animated Hong Kong Connection in a project with RTHK. 

http://www.postgal.com

Young Justice - Animated TV Series

"Don't call 'em sidekicks"

Young Justice is an American animated television series created by Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti for Cartoon Network. Despite its title, it is not an adaptation of Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's Young Justice series of comics, but rather, an adaptation of the entire DC Universe with a focus on young superheroes. The series follows the lives of teenaged heroes (some of them sidekicks) who are members of a fictional covert operation team — called Young Justice — of its celebrity-level famous adult counterpart, the Justice League. The main setting is the fictional universe of Earth-16, during a time period in which superheroes are a relatively recent phenomenon. The series will debut on January 7, 2011 with a two week reairing of the first two episodes, which originally aired as an hour long special on November 26, 2010. [Source: Wikipedia]

Watch Young Justice Episodes 1 & 2 "Independence Day"

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Disney's TRON UPRISING Animated TV Series!

Following the Revolution that takes place within the grid

[Source: BoxOfficeMagazine]

Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis, screenwriters of the new film TRON: Legacy, told BOXOFFCE that the forthcoming TRON spinoff projects would offer a continuation of the mythology of the movie series. "There's a 10-part micro series that will premiere next summer that Eddie and I wrote," Horowitz said during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif. "And we've also worked on a couple of episodes with the series itself. We've hired an incredible team; we've got a guy running the show named Charlie Bean who is an amazing director."

When asked whether the animated series will be part of the continuity of the films, Kitsis said, "Absolutely. And we're treating it very seriously." He explained that the events of the show will take place in between the events of TRON and TRON: Legacy. "This animated show will take place from when Flynn is in a safe house. It's from when Clu takes over the grid to before when Sam comes in. So if you were wondering what was the grid like before that, then watch the show."

Horowitz indicated that it will feature an eclectic cast of voice actors, including the actor who played Tron in both films. "We hesitate to tell too much just yet, but it will fill in the blanks of some things, and also explore some new areas as well," he revealed. "Bruce Boxleitner is in it, Elijah Wood, Linda Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen. I mean, we've got a really cool group of actors."

He also suggested that some of the stories might piggyback on preliminary ideas that he and Kitsis developed for the film that didn't make it into the final cut. "To give you an example of how we approached storytelling sometimes is like when you're in the End of Line club, when we first meet Castor and he's being berated by one of the patrons saying, ‘I want an audience with Zuse.' His name is Bartik, and there's an entire back story we have for him. The guy with him, his name is Hopper, there's a whole thing between the two of them, what they are doing in there, and how they got there. It's like over the years of developing this movie, we developed all these mythologies and all these back stories and all little tangential things."

Kitsis said that he and Horowitz came up with explanations for every aspect of these peripheral characters, and that gives them a richer mythology to draw upon for future stories. "Did we have time to do the Bartik story? No. But now maybe the Bartik story is in the animated series —you know, he's got a huge scar on his face. I want to know how he got that scar. We couldn't sit down and write that there's a guy with a scar on his face without knowing what the scar was. So we hope it adds to the depth of the movie. Our intention is to try and make something that is more than just, let's go get something. We treat TRON very, very seriously and as writers we try to have a reason and a world for everything and not all of it gets to be shown because in this particular movie, we only had two hours.

"[So] hopefully it fills in the blanks in and in a fun way and an intriguing way."

There's a new Christmas Special this Holiday Season

@-}-- Day 2 of our 25 Days of Christmas --{-@
 

 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Yes, Virginia is a new animated Christmas special (on CBS December 17), based on the 1897 true story of the most famous newspaper editorial of all time.

By Francis P. Church, first published in The New York Sun in 1897. [See The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9.]

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below,expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful authoris numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no SantaClaus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell methe truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected bythe skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what theysee. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible bytheir little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s orchildren’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mereinsect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless worldabout him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping thewhole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly aslove and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they aboundand give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how drearywould be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as drearyas if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then,no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should haveno enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with whichchildhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe infairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all thechimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you didnot see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody seesSanta Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. Themost real things in the world are those that neither children nor mencan see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not,but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive orimagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in theworld.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noiseinside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not thestrongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest menthat ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance,can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beautyand glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this worldthere is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousandyears from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he willcontinue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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Young Justice Premieres This Week!

One hour Young Justice special "Independence Day" premieres Friday, November 26 at 7:00 p.m. on Cartoon NetwAork.

Aqualad, Superboy, Robin, and Kid Flash are ready for anything

Synopsis
In Young Justice, being a teenager means proving yourself over and over — to peers, parents, teachers, mentors and, ultimately, to yourself. But what if you're not just a normal teenager? What if you're a teenage super hero? How much harder will it be to prove yourself in a world of super powers, super villains and super secrets? Are you ready to come of age in such a world? Are you ready for life or death rites of passage? Are you ready to join the ranks of the great heroes and prove you're worthy of the Justice League? That's exactly what the members of Young Justice — Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis — will found out … whether they have what it takes to be a proven hero.

In the premiere episode, Robin, Speedy, Aqualad and Kid Flash are finally granted access to the headquarters of the Justice League. But when that access turns out to be little more than a glorified backstage pass, Speedy walks, and the other three sidekicks go on a mission of their own…to Project Cadmus, where they make a startling discovery…

Disney's TANGLED Opens Today!!!!

Firebreather Premieres this week!

[Source: AICN.com] Cartoon Network will premiere the CG movie Firebreather on Wednesday, November 24th at 7pm ET/PT

Based on the comic book series, fans are introduced to Duncan, a typical teen with not so typical parents. His mother once stopped a destructive war between the humans and a race of deadly monsters – the Kaiju. His father is the King of the Kaiju and has been waiting years to meet Duncan and to present him his legacy.

Directed by famed animator Peter Chung (Aeon Flux), Firebreather delivers an action-packed theatrical experience exclusively on Cartoon Network.

Firebreather is written by Jim Krieg (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) and executive produced by Julia Pistor (Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events).

The Firebreather voice cast includes:
Jesse Head as Duncan
Dana Delany as Margaret
Kevin Michael Richardson as Belloc
Reed Diamond as Barnes
Amy Davidson as Jenna
Tia Texada as Isabel
Dante Basco as Kenny
Josh Keaton as Troy