Amazing Animation was a program published by

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for the

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in 1994. Amazing Animation was targeted mainly at children and young teenagers, allowing them to produce their own animated short films with relative ease. The program featured pre-made backgrounds and sounds, and "actors" in the form of so-called "stamps". The stamps pictured various objects, such as a boy, a girl or a dolphin, and when dragged, these stamps would play a pre-programmed animation – the boy would walk, the dolphin swim, etc. Users could also draw their own backgrounds, make their own stamps and record audio. Included with the application was a special "player" application. This player application was free to copy, the idea being that when one wanted to distribute a movie (presumably by

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, as this was before the days when files were regularly shared via the

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), one would distribute the player application along with it. The player allowed people to watch the movie without having to buy the complete Amazing Animation package. Amazing Animation was rated 3 out of 5 stars in a ''

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'' review.

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