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Friday, March 25, 2011

YouTube now lets you create animated videos, no camera necessary

YouTube now lets you create animated videos, no camera necessary

YouTube.com/create

YouTube.com/create is a page dedicated to letting you easily create videos for YouTube, without ever touching a camera. The page starts out as a collection of links to Xtranormal, Stupeflix, and GoAnimate, three services focused on letting you build videos using animated avatars and custom speech. Basically, you choose your avatars, and then write their lines. A text-to-speech engine will then magically make them utter whatever words you wanted them to.

Although they've been integrated into YouTube, all the three editors are hosted by the respective service providers. All the editors have freemium features, such as more sound options and animations, which you can get if you pay for them.

Read More...
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/25/youtube-now-lets-you-create-animated-videos-no-camera-necessary/

I checked them out and it might be fun. But I think it will take quite a bit longer than they predict to make a Decent little Animated Video. I say little, because one of the services only lets you make a 1 minute Ani video for free. You have to pay to do more. They all have limited functionality with the free services. So, look them over and see if the free stuff is worth your time and effort, before your plan your Ani Project...

Don

YouTube now lets you create animated videos, no camera necessary
YouTube now lets you create animated videos, no camera necessary
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Xtranormal | Movie Maker
GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Stupeflix - Video production made easy

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