Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Animation

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On 9/7/06, tor...@at... <tor...@at...> wrote:
> Quoting Albert Cahalan <aca...@gm...>:
> > Uh oh. Maybe the slide show was a big mistake.
> >
> > It sounds like you are ready for something more advanced
> > than a paint program for little kids. Layers are hard to use.
> > If you want layers and such, please use one of these:
>
> No! I am thinking about simple animation for small kids. Maybe layers
> will be a
> mistake. It was just the first solution I thought of to move stuff around. The
> kindergarden where my son is was looking for a paint/image editing/simple
> animation program for the oldest kids (5 years). They can master simple slide
> show animation (at least with a little bit of help), but a animation program
> with tweens, timeline and so on will be to advanced. Maybe layers will be as
> well. My son is still to young to have played much with the computer, so I
> still don't know what he will find easy and not. What do you think about
> inserting sound together with the slide show and go to the next image when the
> sound is done?

I think this is seriously inappropriate for the age group.
You won't be getting tolerable results without a very
complex GUI, a scripting language, or making the user
do an extremely insane amount of work redrawing things.

I'd start with a polygon-based animation system at age 10,
or POV-Ray at age 12.

Tux Paint may be too complex already, both in the GUI
and in the code.