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Animation hopefuls can hit big-time in Facebook competition

Are you a stud digital animator who hasn't quite managed to find a venue for your work?

If so, a new project being run by former Sony Digital Pictures president Yair Landau could be your ticket to the recognition you deserve.

Starting Monday, Landau--backed by several corporate partners--is opening up a competition which will give Facebook users the opportunity to animate one or more sequences in a short film that he is making.

Called Mass Animation, the competition tasks users with taking storyboarded shots from Landau's planned short film, Live Music and creating animations of them. The idea … Read more

AniBOOM's ShapeShifter: easy user-generated animation creation

Old-school Mac users might remember a little application called HyperCard. Originally a database application, it doubled as a casual animation tool--letting users create fairly basic cartoons, frame by frame. This morning I've been playing around with AniBOOM's ShapeShifter, a Web-based animation creation tool that brings back those old feelings of black-and-white computing, with a new social bookmarking twist.

ShapeShifter is pretty simple to use. There are four shapes to choose from, and you can place them wherever you want on the canvas. Each shape can be rotated, resized and grouped together to make new forms. When you're … Read more