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Classroom Claymation Starter Kit

Item #: 9214-AI | Grades 4-12
$199.00

Combining powerful and practical stop motion animation tools and a great beginner's guide to animation, the Classroom Claymation Starter Kit is great way to start creating your first armature stop frame animations! Animate IT! animation software is part of a range of products that has been developed to give children (and adults) of all ages the chance to create fantastic animated films quickly and easily.

Animate IT! has a new intuitive interface with stunningly powerful features. As a bonus those great guys at Aardman are letting you into their secrets and tips as well as providing fun resources on the Animate IT! website here.

This kit includes:

1 Animate IT! Single computer license download code.
3 Packs of Claytoon Modeling Clay - Featuring neutral, primary, and earth tones.
1 Humanoid Wire Armature - Give your character a backbone with this armature kit.
Logitech C920 HD Webcam (Mac and PC compatible) - For capturing your animation frames into Animate IT!
Webcam tripod to get the perfect angle shots!
Beginner's Guide to Animation Book* - Everything you need to know about animation in a beautifully illustrated book!

For a quick overview of Animate IT! please play the video below.

About Animate IT! software

Create your own stop-motion movies quickly and easily with Animate IT! All you need to do is download the software, plug in a webcam, grab a character and get animating. Animate It! was developed by leading education software publisher Kudlian Software, in association with Aardman Animation Studios, the creators of Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and the Oscar nominated motion picture, Pirates, A Band of Misfits.

Animate It! has a new intuitive interface with stunningly powerful features. As a bonus those great guys at Aardman are letting you into their secrets and tips as well as providing fun resources on the Animate It! website here.

Great for those new to animation and educators who want an easy to use, inexpensive tool for creating stop motion animations in HD, Animate IT is the right tool for making engaging and inspiring classroom animations with ease.

Educators working with younger learners or students on the Autism spectrum will appreciate the creative ways the program can be used as a digital storytelling device to foster emotional literacy and give a "voice" to students who would otherwise be unable or unwilling to express themselves.

Minimum system requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8

Microsoft .Net Framework 4 (available as a free download from the Microsoft website)

Graphics card recommended and should support DirectX 9 shader model 2.0

Intel Mac, OS X version Snow Leopard 10.6.0 or later (OS X version Lion 10.7.0 or later recommended).

USB webcam/inbuilt webcam or FireWire DV camera

1.5GB RAM (2GB RAM recommended)

2GHz CPU

100MB HD space

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