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GoAnimate brings animation to the masses
GoAnimate is a new online service the allows anybody to create indepth animated videos.
Online animation services aren’t new, but most offer basic feature sets that emphasize quick creation over options. GoAnimate on the other hand is a full suite of animation tools, covering just about every possible thing you could think to create. Users can define everything from characters, layouts, speech and music, and on top of an extensive library of options, you can also upload your own elements or import scenes from services such as Flickr.
GoAnimate also acts as a host for created animations, complete with embedding options, and support is built in to promote clips on social voting and networking sites.
The site bills itself as a service to people who don’t know how to use Flash, or can’t draw. It’s a fair way of defining the service, but at the same time creating an animation isn’t a quick process either. Depth takes time, and there is also a learning curve as well to know how and when to do certain actions, even if the layout is logical. I haven’t whipped an animation up for this posts because I don’t want to end up wasting hours creating one, but if you’ve ever wanted to create your own animated short, bookmark this site now, it’s that good.
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What a nightmare.
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Why a nightmare? It's great.
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It seems like a cool service, but can their servers handle uber 30fps geeks!?
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James, l am the founder of GoAnimate. What can we do to make it better for you? :)
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Looks pretty cool, simplifies flash-style animation, I of course want to be able to make my own characters but that might be crazy talk. :) edit: Can't wait to try it.
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Killer find.
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Sergiooo, we are indeed working on letting users make their own characters. Stay tuned! :)
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can't wait to see some of the ones made on FF :P
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If it's easy and intuitive enough for kids, this would make a great classroom application. Kids pen and write a story, maybe create some storyboards, then make a GoAnimate cartoon. Meets all kinds of language, arts, and tech standards There is potential for harmful use though with older teens or kids with naughty minds.
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James, nightmare? I think it's brilliant. Time consuming, but brilliant none the less
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yep, with Duncan on this one and I think 'brilliant' is probably the perfect word.
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Disagree too, I don't use it a great deal but I think it's very good
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Alvin, cool ! :)
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Sry, I think I was reacting to the over-the-top narration and the annoying music in the background. That and the statement "the more scenes, the longer and more interesting the story" really seemed to reduce the art of animation and storytelling (something I've been striving to perfect for the past 15+ yrs.) to a push-button assembly line. I can see now that it would be a good introduction for those who are interested in getting started. I apologize if I offended anyone and for my troll-like comment.
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James, no probs. The demo video is a bit hypo admittedly, but I guess there's so much to the product they were trying to squeeze it all in
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I hope it takes off and we get to see some clever and funny cartoons from some clever and funny amateur cartoonists.
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