Review by Mathew A. Shember

I chose this program for my daughter who has taken to anime and Pixar and was curious to how animation works.

It’s called a debut program and I found it offers a rather decent set of tools to play with animation. However, it’s not geared towards children as there is a lack of wizards to guide a person through the tools. There is a PDF and I found it would not keep my girls interest in playing with the package.

The program is fun and does make my girl laugh when I make it do things or show her how but interest can be lost by the PDF and playing by trail and error if your child can get easily frustrated and or bored.

Once nice thing is there are installers for both the Mac and Windows. I have installed it on Tiger and Win 7 and have not seen any issues so far. There is an upgrade to version 6.2. However, it is mildly annoying to have to re-enter the serial number after applying the update so don’t loose the serial number.

Overall, this is a good introduction to animation but it does take a little effort to learn especially if the user is young.