Animating made Easy

We offer commercial licences for purchase so that you can use your animations for promoting your business or website. Sometimes thinking outside the box for ways to engage your customers can go a long way towards enhancing your brand recognition.

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You can create just about any character you can think of! From aliens to cute little babies, this new character creator has got it all. We can't wait to see what all of our creative users can come up with!

Traditionally, making animation takes a lot of work. Here is a brief overview -

Animators make pictures move by tricking the eyes. You have probably done the aeroplane fly past cloud on the edge of a book. By drawing the plane in a different position on each page when you flick the pages it makes the plane fly. This is basically what an animator does, but with a little more sophistication.

First he will set out his story board. This is much like the pictures in a comic strip, where there is a picture for each change of scene. It will show the beginning, development, and end of the story. The art of animation is to move each frame into the next. An animator who is running a story for a video at 26 frames per second will have to draw 26 separate pictures for each second of viewing. If models rather than pictures are being used, the model has to be tweaked incrementally so when the viewer sees it the results appear natural.

There is a great deal of work and patience required to produce a cartoon, and because of this animators usually work in teams. You may have three people on one frame or picture, one will do the background, another will do the character and another will do the actions like water droplets for a splash. They work separately and bring the whole lot together by using layers.

Once all the frames for the story have been finished, they have to be presented one by one to the camera or cameras and photographed. Then the film has to be prepared for projecting onto a screen. Running the film at speed gives the impression of movement.

One of our exceptional users, Roland Doiron, who is known for his fantastic Star Trek animations was featured in an article on SciFiPulse.Net. Roland, who is better known as RoTV on GoAnimate has been a member of the site for over a year and has entertained us with his endless creativity, humor and extraordinary story telling.