Digital Story Telling is at the forefront of Education and there are many powerful and fun options available on a variety of devices, but until now one genre has been significantly absent, animation. Animation has traditionally been a laborious process and a consumer of time, making it difficult and impractical for a student project in a typical classroom. Until now.

Ever since I saw my first animated film as a child I wanted to make one.  I gave it couple of attempts in high school, but nothing turned out like I wanted. I personally found the process to be difficult and time consuming. My finished project  was lacking. Later, as a veteran English teacher, with a strong interest and background in both art and technology, I continued my search. My students shared their interests in creating an animated story.  Again, I tried many types of software, but nothing came out as we had hoped and it was difficult to learn, and an incredible investment of time. Some of the software I tried was expensive too.

Well, I have finally found the solution; I am proud to review and recommend Anime Studio.

Anime Studio is powerful, easy to use, inexpensive, and

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