Virtual Marionette

Tagtool is an creative toolkit for IOS

An incredible tool for artists that can draw and animate in very few steps.

You can even produce performance animation…

The Phenakistocope is a moving image toy or an early animation device developed by Joseph Plateau in 1841.

An early animation device consisting of a disc or drum which rotated, showing successive images through slits, often via a mirror, thus producing the illusion of motion.

‘phenakistoscope’ means  cheat device

phenakisto = cheat

scope = device

A research project for developing tools for dance creation and education. This amazing project started in 2011 in Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) where professionals in dance and technology shared their knowledge.

Now there is a open source Toolkit available to download: RAMDanceToolkit

YCAM InterLab + Yoko Ando Joint Research and Development Project “Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)”

Anymation is an interesting concept from Tom Jantol that describes all kinds of digital animation made with any tool. From animation film, to games, from web animation, to performance animation.

“Anymation is an exciting concept, because its adoption could forge new lines of communication and collaboration between its different children: machinima, digital puppetry, digital comics and graphic novels, stop-motion photography, digital painting, traditional CGI, and so on. These children of Anymation need not lose their identities or obliterate their own definitions. Indeed, Anymation functions best with a very heterogeneous collective of crafts and tools, each with their own identity, and each with the potential to contribute to making an Anymation idea a reality. ”