#Animation Software for Kids

[kitakami-kid]

oh and by the way he's bisexual

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

The way I see a monkie kid reanimated project and my brain goes "I WANNA DO THAT REAL BAD" when I do NOT have time and have BARELY animated 3 things in my LIFE

[hua-fei-hua]

today i learned that we weebs are responsible for the existence of the .ass file type. #heritage

[fagbearentertainment]

So fucking glad I got flipaclip premium again a few years ago b4 my phone app updated to the flipaclip plus shit they don’t even let new users get features via add anymore this app fucking sucks 😭😭😭

[cacy11]

thinking about flipnote hatena...

[earthkinous]

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT UGLY PPG ANIMATIC I MADE WITH BRING ME TO LIFE BY EVANESCENCE WHEN I WAS 8 YO WITH PAINT *LAUGHS TO NOT TO CRY*

[cozwalt]

Felt so good making that I gotta be so real

[zhelin-thames]

Danny as a popular ghost-hunting streamer and Tim as his (secretly smitten) tech-savvy boyfriend

Danny: Soooo, how did the new setup look on stream? 👀 Tim: Flawless. Your transitions are smoother than Nightwing on a trapeze. Danny: Thanks! …Wait, was that a compliment or shade at Dick? Tim: Yes.

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Danny: Dude, someone in the chat said my ghost puns are cringe. Tim: They’re right. Danny: Rude. I thought you loved me for my humor. Tim: I love you despite your humor. Big difference.

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[Group Chat: "BatFam + Phantom"]

Dick: Wait, Danny’s a streamer? Like… famous famous? Danny: Yeah, just hit 1M subs last week! 😎 Jason: How do you even ghost hunt on stream? Danny: I vibe with the ghosts. Sometimes literally. Tim: [uploads spreadsheet of Danny’s analytics] His audience engagement rate is 37%. Insane. Damian: You’re dating a YouTuber. Have you no dignity? Tim: Says the kid with a secret animal rescue TikTok. Damian: …

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[Danny streaming with Tim in the background]

Danny: Alright chat, today we’re exploring an abandoned warehouse! Should be super haunted. Tim (off-camera): Or just structurally unsafe. Danny: …Ignore my very responsible boyfriend. We’re doing this. Chat: WE LOVE TIM!!! Danny: I thought this was my stream. 😒

Tim: I saw you fell through a floor last stream. Care to explain? Danny: Ghost-proof floors aren’t a thing, babe. Tim: And neither is common sense, apparently.

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[Chat watching a rare collab stream]

Danny: Okay, Tim is joining us for this stream because chat kept asking! Chat: TIMMMMM!!! 🥰🥰🥰 Danny: What the heck, I’m literally right here. Tim: [flawlessly hacks into ghost-detection software on stream] Chat: TIM IS THE BEST. 😍 Danny: I can literally fly.

[xdexesx]

As a 5th-Semester Animation Student, I am surprised at how little I actually yell about the animation of this Show.

You guys-

You guys have no idea the actual genius of 9 Story Entertainment and BrownBag Films (The Production and Animation Studio for the Wild Kratts Episodes)

First of all. This is not traditional 2D animation.

This is Cut-Out Animation, also known as 2D Rigged Animation or Puppet Animation. Other shows you might be familiar with that use this technique are Bluey, Hilda, Rick and Morty, or the Big Hero 6 TV Show. There are more but these came to my mind first.

Cut Out Animation can be very limiting, because you work with 2D sprites in a 3D environment almost. The Tech Artists, sometimes called Character Builders, are the ones that take the design of the characters and creatures and build a 2D skeleton of sorts, putting bones inside of the png drawing and allowing it to move. It might sound easy, but trust me when I say it is a tiring process and the node-view is horrifying, haha.

I don't know if people would care for an actual deep-dive into the animation of the show, because believe me, I can talk a lot about it, as someone who is familiar with the animation technique, the technical/character building aspects of it, as well as someone who has actually access to the Software the Animation Studio is using to make these episodes (I kid you not when I say that I am in possession off all the tools to make my own Wild Kratts episode, minus the backgrounds because I hate doing those)

For those that care, THIS is what the animator sees before the episode gets finished, lol

Say hi to "Chad", he was part of the Shortfilm I made with some others in my third Semester at uni.

The purple plots are controllers with which you move the character around.

The green lines and dots are deformers which make the character able to bend and stretch.

Also, the thing in the right window is the beloved node view, or at least a small aspect of it. All these small squares have meaning and I won't even try to explain

While Cut Out Animation isn't my strong suit (Traditional 2D and 3D animation is) I would still be down to talk more about it if anyone cares to listen, lol. Even beyond the software capabilities, the show is actually very interesting to look at from a production standpoint and I would love to just talk more about the animation in general because let me tell you, it is much better than people give it credit for!

[hplonesomeart]

Here’s an short unsuccessful test I did today; attempting to create an animation in a program I quite literally have ZERO experience with using ahaha :’)

Storytime/long ramble (unimportant):

I wanted to be like the “cool kids” and shift out of my comfort zone—no more relying solely on FlipaClip! Gotta branch out to a more effective program (ideally one that has an interface resembling animation software used directly in industry work)! I’ve seen people make good use of AlightMotion and figured it’s worth a shot!….that goal quickly fell apart <<

There’s definitely a wide variety of tools and especially emphasis on built-in editing features. I was intimidated by the sheer amount of mechanics going on at first, but gradually you get used to navigating stuff (even if some stuff I’m still trying to figure out the purpose of lmao). The only issue is that (to me at least) AlightMotion seems to handle tweening better then frame-by-frame animation. Which immediately lands me in a predicament of sorts since uh…can’t say I’m good at tweening. That would require me to actually finish coloring characters/have the ability to polish things using clean linework :P

Tweening (from my perspective) is about making something visually appealing by rigging separated assets of characters (like you would for puppets) rather then the whole. Or alternatively, some people tween by slightly moving the same drawn lines around on a singular drawing…so TLDR the exact opposite of frame-by-frame. I’m not an illustrator, I’m a storyteller. I can only manage rough line work with uncolored motions. Usually the smooth flow of frame-by saves me, else it would all look rather unfinished. I know where my strengths and my weaknesses lie; I’ve given AlightMotion a shot, but unfortunately it’s not gonna be solving the FlipaClip replacement problem 🥲

Was still beneficial challenging myself to play around with an unfamiliar environment! It’s a step in the right direction to encourage myself to try different things/figure out what works or doesn’t. If my patience didn’t wear thin, I’m sure I could’ve attempted authentic tweening instead of trying to push the program to work with frame-by-frame (it kept crashing, lagging, and pixelating while I tried to force it to comply with my methods. Think it’s safe to assume it doesn’t like me fighting against tweening lol). Who knows! Might return to AlightMotion in the future or might not. Depends on how adventurous or up for a challenge I’m feeling :3

Also goes without saying that online video tutorials would have probably helped—I’m just stubborn & prefer taking hands on approach sometimes. Learning any new program is gonna be overwhelming and scary at first, it is normal! I don’t think anything bad about AlightMotion. Just not for me at the moment. Was fun to play with while it lasted

[babyfriends]

FREE internet activities for littles!

a variety of things to do for all ages :3c activities in pink are best intended for babies and toddlers, while activities in blue are best for older kiddos!

games! (♡ = multiplayer, ❗ = may require additional computer skills)

❀ roblox ♡

❀ ponytown ♡

❀ archived flash games via flashpoint ❗

❀ webkinz (some paid features) ♡

❀ infinity nikki ♡

❀ starfall

❀ abcya

❀ archive.org's kid software "clearance bin" ❗

❀ the sims 4 (base game is free via steam, dlc is paid)

❀ minecraft classic

videos!

❀ livestreams of zoo animals (1, 2)

❀ drawing lessons with mo willems

❀ nanalan full episodes

❀ sesame street full episodes

❀ treehouse direct (multiple shows!)

websites!

❀ color famous paintings, coloring pages, or color by number

❀ funbrain

❀ national geographic kids

❀ NASA space place

❀ popular children's stories

[genericpuff]

Here's your regular service reminder that $48k/year sounds like a dream come true to people who have never made a living off their art or comics before, until you factor in the following:

Cost of assistants which is out-of-pocket (some creators literally don't hire assistants because of this which makes the process of meeting their deadlines even harder)

Cost of additional tools necessary to making webtoons and meeting deadlines, such as paying for drawing software, 3D models, etc.

Cost of emergency services such as healthcare are not covered by WT, so if your health deteriorates while you're working on your comic (which it often does for many creators whose bodies are destroyed from working long hours at a desk 7 days a week), WT will not help you.

No paid vacation time, no paid sick leave, no accommodations for people with kids, disabilities, etc. meaning if you have to take time off, WT will not be covering it.

Speaking of vacation time, Webtoons ONLY pays creators for completed and submitted episodes, meaning they will not pay you for pre-production time leading up to a series release OR have your back when you have to go on hiatus. Some creators manage multiple series to make ends meet and avoid stretches of unpaid hiatuses (IIRC I believe KitTrace does this with Nevermore and Shiloh rotating on and off hiatus one at a time) and others simply have to go without pay relying solely on their Patreons and other forms of income when they go on hiatus. And, as we've seen in the past, when they return from hiatus is often up to Webtoons, not them.

That $48k is basically just an average ballpark of what Webtoons pays creators for a season of content, and for those who recall, FastPass earnings are not given to creators until they make back that payment.

It's really hard to get people to FastPass when Webtoons is deliberately not advertising your series and, in some cases, outright SABOTAGING your attempts to advertise.

I don't even know if that $48k is before or AFTER taxes, I'm assuming before considering this is a self-employment contract, meaning you likely have to put away a good few thousand for taxes depending on your state tax rate and what you're able to write off. This also includes having to track assistant expenditures for filing.

The 60-80+ hour weeks many creators are having to pull to meet their deadlines turns that $48k/year into an ASTOUNDING drum roll ... $11 - $15/hour! Which is just barely over minimum wage in many states, and absolutely 100% not a living wage in most! And that's BEST CASE scenario in which you don't pay an assistant, don't suffer any health expenses, don't pay for 3D models / software, and POSSIBLY don't pay your taxes. Yaaaaay! 😒🖕

TL : DR $48k/year hasn't been a salary worth bragging about since 2005 ESPECIALLY not for such high-demand specialized work like this, fuck you Webtoons <3

[impossiblesuitcase]

Random post-canon tlc headcanons I have

Since Kai has lived in New Beijing his entire life, he decides he wants a change. So a few years after they get married, he and Cinder move to Japan. They return to New Beijing when they have important political events, but they can mostly carry out their normal routines from Japan. Although they don't expect him to, Torin naturally follows them there. They live in Japan for a few years but move back when their children start school. After their kids grow up, they spend the rest of their lives living in different areas of the Commonwealth, but always return to New Beijing after a few years. And as royalty, they have plenty of fancy castles, manors and chalets to check out.

When Cress has had her fill of travelling after several years, she goes to university and earns a PhD in Software Engineering, making her a Doctor. The crew like to jokingly ask her medical questions because "she's the doc," ignoring the fact that Jacin is the actual medical doctor.

When deciding what name she wants to put on her degree, she toys with the idea of Dr. Darnel-Thorne, partly because Dr. Darnel is still the name widely associated with her father on Luna, but also because she jokes that there should be "at least one Thorne who actually earned their title legitimately."

Cinder and Kai take turns picking up and dropping their kids off at school every day. Although they could simply send a hover or a chauffeur to do it, it's important to them that their kids always know that they will be the ones waiting for them.

Cress and Thorne have identical twin daughters--one has the Lunar gift, and the other doesn't. Since neither of them really understand the gift themselves, they ask Cinder to train her to use it.

Whenever the crew reunites and they have to somehow wrangle all the children present, Cress and Winter get super into organising games and arts and crafts for them. It entertains them for a while, but they soon get bored. Cress and Winter are racking their brains for something else they can do when Jacin starts showing them medical diagrams and teaching them interesting facts about the body. But normally serious Jacin is animated and lively as he teaches the kids, keeping them enthralled. The parents are all impressed, except for Thorne, who is just grossed out by the medical terms.

Cress has a pair of long grabbers that she uses to pull stuff down from tall shelves when Thorne isn't around.

Scarlet teaches her kids French; Cinder and Kai teach their kids Mandarin. So when their boys are young and playing together, they sometimes forget the Universal word for something and only remember it in their other language, leading to high-pitched 5-year-olds arguing because they don't understand each other, rushing to their parents to 'tell on them', and Scarlet and Cinder trying understand what the hell they are talking about amongst tears and yells of mangled Universal, Mandarin and French.

Cress is the only one to call him 'Carswell,' not Thorne. When people ask Thorne if it bothers him, he winks and quips, "If I want to stay her husband, I have to let her call me whatever she wants," which leads Cress to roll her eyes and huff. He does actually like that she is the only one to use his name. Except for when he asks how she is and she says, "I'm swell, Carswell."

Just as Thorne prophesied when he said Wolf and Scarlet would have "a litter of baby wolf cubs," Scarlet and Wolf have six kids: four boys, two girls. The first isn't planned, the next two are, then the fourth isn't planned. They are convinced that four is perfect and their family is complete...until eight years after their last one is born, they have a surprise. Then after that baby, they chose to have another, because they don't want the youngest to feel like the odd one out.