Bringing Families Together With Animation
As a kid some of my fondest memories have been of my family and I gathered in the living room around the TV, with our popcorn in hand, watching the latest Disney movie. Animated movies have been bringing families together since they were first introduced. Now, in this new age of technology, imagine the same scenario, except this time you are all watching an animation that you wrote and created together!
At GoAnimate, we are seeing more and more family created animations. What a great way to bring kids and adults together and make memories that can last a lifetime! Our free tools make it very easy for people without knowledge of animation software to make professional looking videos. As our motto says "Anyone Can Animate".
We have some great examples of users that have gotten their families involved in their hobby of creating animations. Here are just a few;
"The whole animation was based on a story I wrote for him a while ago about this time we were walking down
the street near our home" says Coady. Gideon randomly says, "Look, a Brontosaurus". We looked where he was pointing and sure enough there was a silhouette of a large tree that looked remarkably like a Brontosaurus. A few days later I wrote a story very similar to this animation for him. I knew he'd love it as an animation.
Usually Gideon & Cyndi give me their opinion on a video or a drawing I've made and they tell me what they like best.
"Gideon's Dinosaur Tree" is the first time I've had them both work on the voices for a video. It was great.
Gideon was just tickled to have a character with his features and a story about his family. And then when he finally got to hear his voice on his character he thought it was the most wonderful thing and you can see how proud he is to have his own cartoon. "We look forward to making some more together." said Coady
Gideon's Dinosaur Tree by CoadyTNP
mily in creating animations with the site. “It has been a lot of fun for all of us,” Wayne says about GoAnimate. “We get to write stories and design characters… we laugh and have a great time.” Wayne creates an animated series with his nephews with GoAnimate. Jamari and Bralyn write, animate and voice for their characters in their self titled series. Voices have also included Wayne himself as well as the boys’ grandparents. “It has become a welcome addition to the family. It’s a fun activity to do together. It has also become educational for the boys to see how an animated cartoon is made. The best part is when the cartoon is done and we all get to watch and laugh. The boys’ mom and I share the cartoons on our Facebook pages and show the whole family and our friends. The best was when we showed their latest cartoon to the family on Christmas and it got a round of applause from everyone. You could see the pride on their faces, which makes it all worthwhile.” Jamari and Bralyn’s Christmas Special was a winner in the recent Jingle Bell Blowout Contest. “Winning a Nintendo DSi together for the boys was pretty cool. The boys were really excited.”Jamari and Bralyn's Christmas Special by Chaostoon
Darian says "Doing a Cartoon with the family was a blast, such a great way to spend time together.
" Seeing as how my girlfriend and I are really busy people so to be able to sit down with Raiden, our son, and create something together was great. Raiden loved the whole idea of being in a cartoon as most kids would and he thinks he's the most famous person in the world right now ha ha. He helped me the whole way with his Cartoon as well. When I joined there was sooo much to play with I had no clue where to start so I thought "hmm why not ask Raiden he's a kid and their imaginations are unrivaled" and the rest is history, we can't wait to get another adventure going. I think the best part of the whole thing was the voice acting, we spent literally an entire day recording voices, after that though Raiden is pretty much a professional.Raidens Random adventures by BIGELOW
In the words of Raiden "You guys rock" and he also thanks everyone who helped make it possible, he also thanks all his new fans out there. Darian said "I would also like to give a shout out to the amazing community, never have I met so many great people willing to help out and make it such a great place to hang, you welcomed us with open arms."
Hopefully these stories have inspired you to get your families involved and GoAnimate!
What a cool article. Really enjoyed reading this.
I just got my wife involved in my silly animations with a v.o and told her maybe she should spread the word with her class at school.
Getting others involved and collaborating is such a blast. Especially family and friends, and especially at such a wonderful creative website.
Woot woot!
You are right! Collaborating is a lot of fun. I sure had fun being a part of your series, helping out with voice overs!
What a great class activity it would be to get all the kids involved with doing voices! I bet them and their families would be pretty excited at their creativity!
In the film world, we could call this a "genre". I'm proud to be part of contributing to this new genre of GoAnimate cartoons and thank you so much for including my family and me in your blog post!
Hi, is the goanimate website down? Tried to go into www.goanimate.com and got the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
You are right, Anonymous. I've tried to go to the GA site, but it says "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". I have internet and the correct link, but still nothing. I also new (homophone) knew that.
Good Enough for me
What a cool one to read.
I wish I could get my family to do this kind of thing.
But I'm sure my mother and father wouldn't want to be bothered with such nonsense I guess.
So the best I've done is get my friends to get on GoAnimate and act like out of all of them I'm the best animator although I'm just being cocky and help them out with some of their animations.
Hi Wyld,
Maybe if you show them some of the other family created animations, they may change their minds. It's a great family activity and I'm glad you enjoyed the article! :)
Maybe, it's worth a try I really do want to get involved with my family and make animations with them like some others in this article.
I think I will do it.
The worst they can do is say no.
Thanks.:)
i will try to make one like these sometime....
I want to!
It's me by the way XOC!
Great article!
Fantastic article, glad to see more and more people are getting into this.