B5-Go!Animate

GO!ANIMATE is great tool to create short, animated films easily and publish them on the Internet. Go!Animate turns out high quality animation with and ease of use.   You can choose a wide variety of characters that can be made to perform a wide variety of actions and show plenty of entertaining emotions and reactions. There are also several scenes to choose from whether you want the characters to be on the beach or presenting a newscast, the software gives many choices.  

You can choose between props, scenes, sound effects, and change a multitude of objects in the animation to make it your own.  The best feature is the ability to use voice in the cartoons you create -no dialogue bubbles needed overhead.

The account is free and perfect for my middle school 8^th grade language arts classroom.  But really it is wonderful for anyone!  I was able to create my video in less than 15 minutes.  But if that isn’t good enough, seeing the example on the site of the animated version of the Mac versus PC characters is an impressive way to show that amateurs and experts use the tool.

One of the important parts of this tool is the ability to save it and share it anywhere on the web.  It gives you a URL address and an embedded code for Twitter, Facebook, or your own personal blog.  

Go!Animate has its own community where you can view, comment, rate, and subscribe to other member’s videos –there’s even a favorite list.  Yet, if you’re a new member such as myself and want to see some great ideas with the site then there is a community tab that give you access to view others such as Staff Picks, most views, and most recent. 

They even give their users contest to inspire creativity and inspiration.

Go!Animate is a wonderful community that allows users the ease to create fabulous cartoons that can be used in a variety of environments. Even my school has a commercial link there to nab up and coming computer animators. 

                                             Logo and screen shots from Go!Animate.com