Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: August 4, 2008
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GoAnimate brings animation to the masses

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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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  • August 4, 2008 at 6:41 pm James Hull
    What a nightmare.
  • August 4, 2008 at 7:10 pm Barak B
    Why a nightmare? It's great.
  • August 4, 2008 at 7:21 pm Helen
    It seems like a cool service, but can their servers handle uber 30fps geeks!?
  • August 4, 2008 at 7:32 pm Alvin
    James, l am the founder of GoAnimate. What can we do to make it better for you? :)
  • August 4, 2008 at 7:46 pm sergiooo (droffset)
    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.
  • August 4, 2008 at 7:54 pm l0ckergn0me
    Killer find.
  • August 4, 2008 at 8:14 pm Alvin
    Sergiooo, we are indeed working on letting users make their own characters. Stay tuned! :)
  • August 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm Tim Hoeck
    can't wait to see some of the ones made on FF :P
  • August 4, 2008 at 8:29 pm Pete Delucchi
    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.
  • August 4, 2008 at 9:22 pm Duncan Riley
    James, nightmare? I think it's brilliant. Time consuming, but brilliant none the less
  • August 4, 2008 at 9:26 pm Zee at WeDoCreative
    yep, with Duncan on this one and I think 'brilliant' is probably the perfect word.
  • August 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm Kol Tregaskes
    Disagree too, I don't use it a great deal but I think it's very good
  • August 4, 2008 at 10:56 pm sergiooo (droffset)
    Alvin, cool ! :)
  • August 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm James Hull
    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.
  • August 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm Duncan Riley
    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
  • August 4, 2008 at 11:28 pm Barak B
    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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