SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Alice – Progress
Well I have a small working video produced in Alice just using some of the basic principles and keeping it real simple. It’s not the same one I started with Socrates and Dr. Sheutzenheimer, since I’d developed some sense of story with that and didn’t want to mess it up.
Overall, the software is enjoyable to work with and one of the easier ones I’ve tried. The graphics being as sophisticated as they are helps tremendously to keep the momentum up when drudging through the technical aspects of making the animation work. I think that’s what hindered me on Scratch; it just wasn’t nice enough looking for the effort put into it. When you see what’s available and what’s being done by folk in the animation field, even at amateur levels, you want to leap rather than crawl.
Besides, I’ve always been one for instant gratification.
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