Which laptop/software would you buy for animation films?

tunathe_cat

Hi
Our son is 13 and likes to make lego animation films.

He has acer intel laptop but complains it is too slow. So xmas around the corner - what would you recommend

laptop
animation software

hope someone out there can help a non tech mum!

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What is the spec of the machine you have?

Depending on what's slow, acer erestore should make it fast again (animating can take a while, but adding jpg's into an avi shouldn't be too slow), but will delete all data, so backup first. There's lots of "free animation software", if you google the term, but you will need a camera if the laptop doesn't have one (your post suggests he's already tried it).

tunathe_cat

ok mum got it wrong...... programe keeps crashing windows movie maker
which othr programes/software editing could be used?
?? spec

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spec - processor, ram, operating system

windows movie maker crashes or another program?, when, doing what, could be corrupt data or possibly camera drivers, try downloading latest version from microsoft.

How are the stills/video's being recorded

http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started

google

"free animation software" or "free stop motion software", there are guides on youtube on how to use various stop animation or 3d rendering programs

tunathe_cat

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movie maker crashes he films stills on a camera

Adam also needs to be able to play games.
also camera / microphone for skype


I cut and pasted spec from acer website its all gobbly-goup to me sorry for delay:rotfl:

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Post more about the crashing, have you seen it crash, and if so, what exactly happened? Have you got the latest version of movie maker?

Is he is using a handheld camera, and trying to combine ~14 megapixel jpg's into a video, or using the inbuilt camera?

it's a relatively new machine which should be able to do what he needs easily (unless you have a specific game that won't run), and has a webcam/mike already for skype (which can also be used for animation if he is using an external camera), it should have plenty of life left in it yet.