MUAN is a Stop Motion Animation System for Education which is part of Anima Escola Project and IBM Brazil Reinventing Education Initiative.
ANIMA ESCOLA is a project which offers animation
workshops for students and teachers from municipal schools of Rio de
Janeiro.
ANIMA ESCOLA is a version of Open Studio (workshops of Anima Mundi Festival) specially developed for schools. Teachers and students can produce short animated videos using characters made with clay or using your own body (pixilation technique), advised by specialized professionals. The final results of this frame by frame video are seem immediately. With sponsorship of IBM Brasil, the ANIMA ESCOLA project, through the partnership with IBM Reinvening Education Initiative, will expand its activities for the entire Brazil. The software MUAN for Linux, developed in a partnership with VISGRAF Laboratory of IMPA, integrates a tecnological system which allows the use of animation in schools.
IBM Reinvening Education is an innovative initiative which aims at contributing to improve the quality of public education, through making available creative technology to teacher professional development activities and public schools.
The MUAN system, specially developed for the ANIMA ESCOLA project
and introduced since 2004, allows animation movies production offering
an integrated kit of hardware and software.
The hardware, sponsored by IBM, consists of multimedia notebook,
digital video camera and support over necessary acessories for interconnection.
The software was developed under Linux by the team of VISGRAF Laboratory and, at the present moment, consists of two programs:
The first tests of the software MUAN done at the VISGRAF Lab
are shown below. These are video files (.mpg) without sound, originally in dv
(.avi) format.
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