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   The first International Festival of Educational Animation School in Motion Festival is over, but our work on creating educational animation for the school is just beginning! Although we did not win any prizes, but we met many interesting people and organizations, and now we will create even more interesting cartoons through joint efforts. And at the next festival, we will surely win some prize. By the way, here our cartoon on the official channel of the festival on YouTube. In Italian with English subtitles. It was fun. On the same channel you can watch all the cartoons that participated in the festival. Including the winners of the competition.

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   Admission of entries for the First International Festival of Educational Animation is over. Our multinational animation team also presented their work for the competition! Before April 30 a professional jury got to select the best works that will be shown on the festival day on May 15 at MAXXI - the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. And then we will find out who became the winners!

  Perhaps this year you did not have time to prepare your work for the festival, but there will be another year, and there will be many more interesting competitions! We will be glad to see you at the festival!

   Watch our video tutorials, learn the animation with us, and we will win prizes together!

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   Made a little animated video to tell my students about the festival.

   My dear friends! I just can't wait to inform you about an amazing event in the world of animation - it is the first international festival of educational animation! And it is very symbolic that the festival will be held in Rome - the city that served as the cradle for all European civilization. And not simply in Rome, but in MAXXI - the National Museum of 21st Century Arts. This is what I call the meeting of the past and the future. The festival will take place on May 15th. Money prizes of 1,000 to 4,500 euros are already waiting for applicants! More information about the festival you can find on the official website of the event www.schoolinmotion.it And of course, we will also take part in the work of the festival - what could be a festival of educational animation without a General-Animation studio. Our wonderful animated video lessons allow anyone quickly learn how to make cartoons. Come to our website General-Animation.com where we will tell you how to make a charming cartoon character, so that he would teach the kids. Follow our news and see you at the festival!

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   With the beginning of the New Year, we are starting a new charity animation project in which we will make cartoons together with you and raise funds to help children in Africa. I already made the beginning of the cartoon:

    From the moment where Piglet begins to talk about the brilliant plan of Winnie the Pooh to turn Africa into a prosperous continent, we can use a simpler motion graphics. This is the fragment I will use when creating lectures. I will do video tutorials based on this fragment, by them you will study our animation technique, and from time to time I will give small tasks on animation of one or another part of the text. For the fulfillment of these challenges, the winners will receive encouraging money prizes.
   And so: the most important thing in animation is to be able to relay an idea to the viewer by the means of graphics and movement. To do this, we will use simplified stylized images referred to in the professional environment as “motion graphics”. Let's take some practice in this art. For a little practice we’ll use the simple idea that Piglet expresses at the very beginning of his speech: in order for African youth can make cartoons and earn a worthily living of it, there was a lack of one key element - the computers themselves. (The entire text pronounced by Piglet can be found here ...)
We need to create a video sequence that would express the idea that there are not enough computers in Africa. You can draw these pictures yourself, or you can search for something suitable on the Internet. For this lesson, I chose the second approach - I just went online and search web using keywords “Children” and “Computer”. And pretty soon I found this picture. 
Perfect! This is exactly what we need! We have a child, there is a computer, and if we remove the computer, we’ll have a child who doesn’t have enough of computer.
Head seemed too big to me. In addition, we are talking about African children, so I decide to draw a new head. I cut off the old head in Photoshop, and using the ellipse tool, made this kind of head, to which I added the curly hair I found on the Internet. Add in ears and a small nose, a mouth, and we’ll got such a nice African boy.
Cut the monitor on a separate layer so that you can make it invisible.
Also cut the hand on a separate layer so that the boy could work with the keyboard. Move head, move hand, change face, and we end up with such cartoon: African child with a computer and without a computer, which is exactly what we needed to express our thoughts.