Check out Xtranormal.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m actually working when I come across things like this! Once again thanks to The Ed Techie for drawing it to our attention.
Basically, it’s a 3d animation tool for dummies. You type in your script select character costumes, pick camera angles, sounds, music etc.
The results can be crude but have a certain charm to them. Here are a few examples…
Introduction to a teaching topic on digital media
Something more fun…
Excellent tool for teaching about storyboarding and pre-production or maybe just general cross-curricular idea presentation.
Word of warning, it’s at beta stage at the mo so using it as a class activity may not be reliable. Also, when it comes out of beta testing you may find that you have to pay to put stuff up on it.
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To answer your concerns about beta and pricing:
We’re still working on pricing, but here’s some information that will help you:
1. This web-site targets consumer use—realistically, our pricing has to be aggressive. We need to figure out if it make more sense to charge per movie, per month, per year, or a combination of these. As a pricing reference, animoto.com charges 3 bucks per movie (given the nature of our product, we’d be a cheaper) or 30 bucks/year all-you-can-eat (I think that’s a realistic ball-park).
2. We plan to keep everything you do on the web-site for free today free forever. When we start charging, it will be for additional features, new worlds, and other premium services not yet online.
3. So you can make your movies, download them, do stuff with them, and put them anywhere you like. The only caveat here is that the terms of service require non-commercial use. If you want to make movies and sell them or offer commercial services based on them, then at some point we’ll expect you to compy and sign up to a commercial account.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Richard Gratton
Director of Product Management
Xtranormal, Inc.
um i need help can u make ur movie ppl move because thats what i want to know
As far as I can see you characters remain static and you can apply expressions and gestures. Still pretty cool, though.
Happy New Year!
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