Create Video Animation Without Skills For Free?
What if you could create an animated video commercial or instructional video with no software, technical skills, or money? Well, you can. Just type and voila, cool animated video you can pass on to friends, play on your web site, or upload to YouTube.
I spent a few hours playing around with creating quick and easy animated video skits that instruct or sell ideas in an easy to digest video format.
People are so not into reading, and completely tune out advertisements, so this might be a way to get people to pay attention for just a little while.
Simply type out your script, drag-and-drop camera angles, expressions, and animations to your characters dialogue and publish it. Upload to YouTube if you like.
The concept is very cool, the implementation is really intuitive, it's relatively stable, but the voices of the characters can be too computerish. Somtimes, the words don't sound at all like they really sound but with a little typing creativity you can make it more intelligable. Play around with different accents such as german male, or french female. It's a lot of fun. The Premium accounts are not yet available but will allow for more choices in scenes, characters, and allow for green screen and export to desktop video editing. Visit them at http://www.xtranormal.com to setup an account.

