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One of my daughters has what I consider to be an amazing artistic ability. She can draw stuff that she considers to be junk that is better than anything I could possibly hope to create.

Here is an example of her work. The high school was redecorating their library and allowed the art students to each take home a ceiling tile to decorate. She copied this dragon from the cover of a book she’d just read.

That same young lady has an interest in learning the process of animating. She has dreams of putting her artwork up for sale and eventually even creating her own cartoon (for television or the internet, I’m not sure).

I’m thinking seriously about getting her Smith Micro Anime Studio v.5.0 for Christmas. From what I’ve read about it, it would go a long way in teaching her the process of creating desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com. Anime Studio can also produce full-length animation for film, video or streaming over the web.

The more I think about it, the more I think I’d love to see her reaction to opening this and figuring out what it is. I’d also love to see what she could do with it.