Animations
The Animation field has transformed with CGI in the last ten years. You can try your hand at doing an animation like this one:
Dancers.mov Download Dancers.mov
This is actually what is called a stop action video. The creator went to Paint or some other graphic creator, and drew MANY pictures, reflecting each movement of the dancers. Then, they put them in MovieMaker, and timed them a fraction of a second apart, so they flipped quickly from one to the next.
You can actually make a stop action video. Use Paint to draw your character (3), and slightly change the movement of it in each picture version you do. Then put all the pictures you've saved in order in MovieMaker, and set the timing to .5 seconds.
Here is one made in one of my last Pride classes. animation Shelby Hanson.mp4 Download animation Shelby Hanson.mp4
You can also try one of these editors to create movement through still images:
*GIFs in Photoshop Elements
*http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html Links to an external site. (may be blocked at school)
*http://animation.about.com/od/referencematerials/a/freesoftware.htm Links to an external site. (May be blocked at school)
If you want a taste of what REAL animators do, go to Khan Academy, and explore the computer animation video tutorials:
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar Links to an external site.