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Create Talking Animations With These Free iPad Apps

January 10, 2018 by admin

Parts of this post originally appeared on my other blog, FreeTech4Teachers.com.

Making animated movies is one of my favorite video creation projects for elementary school students. Students love hearing their voices bringing to life an animated character on the screen. You can have students create animations to tell stories from their own lives or to animate short stories that they have written in your classroom. The following three free iPad apps enable elementary school students to create talking animated movies.

PuppetMaster is a free iPad app that kids can use to create animated movies. The app is designed for elementary school students and therefore doesn’t require students to create accounts in order to use it. All movies made with the PuppetMaster app are saved to the camera roll on a student’s iPad. To create an animated movie with PuppetMaster students simply open the app, select a character, and the select a background scene for their movies. PuppetMaster has pre-made characters and background scenes. Students can also add their own background scenes by taking a picture to use as the background. For example, I made a movie with a robot character attempting to reach under the Christmas tree in my living room (you can view that movie here). Students can record themselves talking or singing in the background of their movies in order to tell their stories.

ChatterPix Kids is a free iPad app that students can use to turn pictures into talking pictures. To create a talking picture just snap a picture with your iPad or import a picture from your iPad’s camera roll. After taking the picture just draw in a face and tap the record button to make your picture talk. Your recording can be up to thirty seconds in length. Before publishing your talking picture you can add fun stickers, text, and frames to your picture. Finished Chatter Pix projects are saved to your camera roll and from there you can export it to a number of services including YouTube. ChatterPix Kids doesn’t require students to create an account in order to use the service. Using the app can be a great way to get students to bring simple stories to life. Check out the video below that was made, in part, by using ChatterPix.

Tellagami is a free iPad that elementary school students enjoy using to create narrated animations. Tellagami allows your students to create customized animated scenes in a matter of minutes. To create a narrated, animated scene students simply open Tellagami and tap “create.” After opening the create menu students will see a default character and background scene. The characters can be altered by selecting from a big menu of customization options. The background scenes can be changed by selecting from a menu or by inserting a picture from the iPad’s camera roll. To add their voices to their animations students simply tap “record” and start talking. Completed animations are stored on the camera rolls of your students’ iPads. Tellagami does not require students to create accounts or have an email address.

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Filed Under: Elementary School Tagged With: animation, free ipad apps, video creation, video editing

Animation Desk Premium – Free for a Limited Time

May 29, 2014 by admin

animation The premium version of one of my favorite video creation apps, Animation Desk, is free today (At least in the U.S. I have not verified availability outside of the United States). Animation Desk is an iPad app for creating short, animated videos. The app allows you to create drawings using just your finger on your iPad’s screen. In each scene you can include as little or as much as you want to draw on the canvas. There are a few different brush and pencil effects that you can use in your drawings. The opacity of the colors you choose can be altered too. When you have completed drawing all of your scenes hit the play button to watch your animation unfold. If you’re happy with your animation you can export it to YouTube or save it to your iPad’s camera roll. Watch the video below for a demonstration of the app.

Animation Desk Lite | screencast tutorial from School Library Journal on Vimeo.

By the way, I discovered that Animation Desk was free today through Apps Gone Free. Every day Apps Gone Free lists paid apps that are available for free for a limited time.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, High School, Middle School Tagged With: animation, animations, apps gone free, free ipad app, free ipad apps, video creation

Kids Can Become Animators With Creative Kids for iPad

February 14, 2014 by admin

Screen Shot 2014-02-10 at 12.25.46 PM Creative Kids is a free iPad app from Faber-Castell. The app provides students with step-by-step directions for drawing on paper then see those drawings become animations on their iPads. Even kids who don’t fancy themselves as artists can create neat animations by using the tracing directions provided by Creative Kids. Creative Kids supports up to four student profiles. 

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Creative Kids offers a great blend of the analog and digital tools. Students can develop drawing skills on paper then see the drawings come to life through the animation aspect of Creative Kids. Watch the video below for an overview of the free Creative Kids iPad app.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, Middle School Tagged With: animation, Art, drawing, free ipad apps

Create Animations on Your iPad With ABCya Animate

August 9, 2013 by admin

Screen Shot 2013-08-09 at 9.31.20 PM Last month ABCya released a great web app called ABCya Animate. That app is now available as an iPad app. With ABCya Animate for iPad students build their animations by drawing, typing, and inserting images. Students can change the background of each frame, include new pictures in each frame, and change the text in each frame of their animations. Watch a complete overview of the app in the video below.

ABCya Animate could be a great tool for elementary school and middle school students to use to create animations to use to tell a short story.

ABCya Animate is currently priced at $1.99.

Disclosure: ABCya is a sponsor of one of my other blogs, Free Technology for Teachers. 

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Animation Express – Create Simple Animations on Your iPad

May 2, 2013 by admin

animationAnimation Express is a free iPad app for creating simple animated drawings. When you open the app you will see a sample animation that provides a sense of what you can do with the app. After watching the sample animation tap “+” in the upper-right corner of the screen to start creating your own animation. Draw each frame of your animation using your finger or a stylus. After creating the frames you can add a sound track and or a background image. You can also change the colors of the digital ink that you use. Animation express allows you to specify how many frames per second appear in your animation. Your finished product can be exported to YouTube or saved on your iPad.

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Animation Express allows you to have three projects at a time. After that you will have to either upgrade to the paid version or delete a project.

Animation Express could be a good little tool for students who would like to use animation to tell a story.

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