Amazing Animation is designed for kids, age 5-12. It comes with 9 photorealistic backgrounds and lots of animated characters and sounds that can be combined in limitless ways. They can scan in photos or import any PICT file from other programs. Available in Macintosh floppy disk or Mac-CD format. A third good choice is Magic Theater by Knowledge Adventure .
Kids can create, narrate and animate their own computer movies.
Magic Theater is easily recognized in the stores by its clever packaging. The box is a theater decorated with popcorn. Magic Theater is for age 6 and up. It comes in Windows floppy disk or MPC format. All 3 programs let kids use the microphone to narrate their story, sing tunes or add their own special sound effects .