Think you can create the next Swat Kats? Got a creative desire and a talent for cartoons, animation or drawing? Try GoAnimate. GoAnimate is an animation studio embedded in browser. It lets you build multi-scene animations, with complete support for music, transitions, and user-uploaded page elements. As compared to other cartoon making sites, it has a more complete set of features for tailoring any animation to your liking. This new site might help you get your creative juices flowing by letting you add scenes to your animations just as you'd do for a video clip.
GoAnimate's tools are as easy to use for anyone who has a story to tell, whether he's an artist or not. Like most video editing applications GoAnimate centers around a time line. Everything is drag and drop, so you can pick out characters, props, backgrounds and special effects and simple put them on the canvas where you see fit. You can even place a photograph of your face over a character for an added comedic touch. Each "scene" can be edited to last as long as you want, and you can drag finished scenes around the time line to re-order them. Have a look at this how-to for an impressive demo.
Animations are shareable across a variety of social networking and social bookmarking sites, as well as embeddable, though I’m quite surprised to see YouTube missing from the distribution “share” list.“Essentially you’re erecting a video shoot, and just placing these actors on stage and asking them to perform for you”, said Alvin Hung, founder and CEO GoAnimate.
Web-based animation sites for user-generated content like Aniboom, MyToons etcetera are growing in popularity, but GoAnimate is more oriented towards creation side. While simple to use, this tool is not without its shortcomings. For example, you can't set up several characters movements or actions. It means you are unable to attach more than speech bubbles with a delay. The tool also feels a little confined on larger screens as it doesn't scale to match the extra width.
However, bringing such nice creation tools to the average web user is one of the most appealing trends we're observing across a number of flash-based spaces, along with games and multimedia content-sharing. As such media becomes further integrated into the social media, it will help in making more money and will encourage even more feature development to simplify the creation and sharing process.
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4 comments:
waah bhai!! taaight!
This site looks like a kid put it together for kids to play with their so called animation toys. It's not even that cool. Are they serious about creating? It does not do real animation creators justice. It should be called: "Go Waste Your Time" It's just as bad as Zwinky or Meez. My two C's
Certainly, it has got disadvantages as well but their focus was to target a layman, who is not very much familiar with the basis of animations. So I think, it's a good tool for those who want to have fun without any expert knowledge but yes, you can't download or embed the animation in your site, thus, drawback remains.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be targeting professional animators by any means...but still, score one for animators, right?!
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