2D and 3D Graphics and Animations
Graphics and animations play an integral part to online, flexible and interactive learning environments. Grapics and animations should engage, explain or offer the learner the opportunity to increase his/her understanding of the learning outcomes. Launchpad specialises in using animations in interactive learning environments requiring the learner to control the animation as part of a more detailed learning experience.
Animations in Training
In First Aid For All, a US Lay Rescuer training package, 3D animations form an integral part of the learning. Here the learner must mimick real world responses, actions and treatments by controlling animations with structured learning activities to demonstrate knowledge and competence.
But it shouldn't be all work. Humour and engagement are necessary for learning to be effective. Sometimes we use animation for the sheer fun of them and to set the tone for the upcoming module.
Animation for explanations
Sometimes seeing is believing. As these amino acids join to make a peptide bond, it is easy to see how the water molecule is released as part of the bond formation. Animations are an ideal mechanism of 2D and 3D modelling.
3D Virtual Environments
With the advent of the modern PC, it is now possible to construct virtual 3D environments. Very familiar to the younger Nintedo/Play station generation, these challenging environments offer us, as educators, unparalled opportunities to engage and teach.
Click the image on the right to down load the Scene Survey Simulator which has been extracted from a much larger program as a demo. This is a 12MB Zip download. Unzip it and run the survey_room1.exe. Once it is running, press the Challenge Mode button to inialise the help..
Above is a small sample of our work. For more information on how Launchpad can help with your online learning materials development, please contact Peter Weyand at Launchpad Multimedia Pty Ltd.