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Whether you're producing a title card for your new company, or just looking to wow your co-workers with a dazzling presentation on the dangers of hydraulic fracking, a little animation is never a bad idea. Things are more interesting when there's a little flare involved, right?
Lucky for you, a handful of programs are out there to help you create your own animations. From branding to marketing to entertaining, their purposes are endless, and extremely customizable for whatever it is you're going for.
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Check out these five animation tools to help you get started.
1. Apple Motion
Functions: Titling, motion graphics
Price: $49.99
Price: $49.99
Apple Motion, a downloadable graphics app for Mac OS X, is ideal for creating simple titling animations for your business or independent projects. The updated versions include more complex features like 3D-compositing, vector painting and motion tracking.
We threw together a simple animation of our own (above) using the text and 'sparkle' features. Emphasis here on simple — it's about as bare-boned as you can get (please feel free to make fun of the quality in the comments below). But it did only take a few minutes, and if you spend more time toying around with the various features and customizing your animated logos, the results can be pretty worthwhile.
2. Adobe After Effects
Functions: 2D animation, motion graphics
Price: $999 — but, you can subscribe for $19.99 per month or sign up for a free 30-day trial
Price: $999 — but, you can subscribe for $19.99 per month or sign up for a free 30-day trial
Adobe After Effects is typically used for high-end motion graphics and post-production video effects. But don't let its complex features intimidate you — you can also use the program on a smaller scale for basic 2D animations. Similar to Apple Motion, you can choose from a handful of default animations and drag them into an easy-to-use edit space. Again, it's a great way to create quick animations for content series or titles.
3. Go! Animate
Functions: Animated shorts, character and background template varieties
Price: $25 per month for business plan
Price: $25 per month for business plan
Go! Animate is an online application you can use to make customized video animations — for work presentations, school lessons or just after-work side projects. The website offers 50 template cartoon characters (with 150 different poses) to choose from, as well as 20 backgrounds, 20 music tracks and 200 props. You can use the program's template voices for your characters or customize them even further by recording your own.
4. Xtranormal
Functions: 3D-animated videos
Price: $50 per month for professional plan
Price: $50 per month for professional plan
Xtranormal operates similarly to Go! Animate, only here the animations are 3D. You can choose between 500 characters (with 80 gestures), 200 background sets and 20 languages and direct up to 12 characters per 'scene.'
5. Wideo
Functions: Animated shorts, product promotion
Price: Free
Price: Free
An up-and-coming program (it's still in its beta phase), Wideo is a free platform for creating basic animations. You can choose a template, as well as pictures from your personal library, and customize them into short informational videos. The company says its main purpose is to help businesses create simple animated commercials.
That's a wrap for now — but keep in mind that these are only a few of our favorites. Are there any good ones we forgot to include? Share them with us in the comments!
And remember: Eat your fruit, alright?
Thumbnail image courtesy of Go! Animate
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- Oct 23, 2019
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GifCam6.0
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GifCam makes it easy to create animated GIF images by simply recording the activity from a selected portion of your screen.Simply move and size the recording frame over the area you want to capture and press a button to start...
- 539 Kb
- Oct 07, 2019
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ScreenToGif2.19
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ScreenToGif is a small, portable program that enables you to record anything on your screen and save it as GIF animation. You can freely move the capture frame to record video on a web page or screen activity on your desktop...
- 5.08 Mb
- Oct 13, 2015
- XP/Vista/7/8/10
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Cyotek Gif Animator0.0.6.0 beta
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Cyotek Gif Animator enables you to create and edit animated GIF images. You can quickly make an animation from a series of still images, modify existing animations, extract frames, work with color palettes, perform batch...
- 1.89 Mb
- Apr 20, 2015
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Romeolight GIFmicro1.6
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Romeolight GIFmicro is an optimization tool for GIF animations that enables you to reduce the file size of your animated GIFs by optimizing the color palette and removing unneeded data.The program offers two optimization...
- 131 Kb
- Mar 03, 2015
- XP/Vista/7/8/10
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GIF Viewer1.6.5
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GIF Viewer is a small and simple image viewer that lets you view animated GIF images. When you first run the program, you have the option to set it as the default viewer for .GIF files, so that they will be automatically...
- 20.3 Mb
- Sep 11, 2014
- Win (All)
- Free
Photoscape3.7
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PhotoScape is a complete photo editing suite that includes image browsing/viewing, photo editing, picture page printing, photo resizing and renaming, and even RAW conversion. The photo editor includes standard editing features... Offers to install promotional, third party software.
- 14.0 Mb
- Jul 02, 2013
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QGifer0.2.1
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QGifer is an open-source application that enables you to extract a scene from a video file and save it as animated GIF image. After you load your video file, you can use the built-in player to select the start/end frames of...
- 1.82 Mb
- Dec 17, 2012
- XP/Vista/7/8/10
- Free
GIF Optimizer2.0
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GIF Optimizer enables you to reduce the size of your GIF animations without perceivable quality loss. The program achieves this by removing unused palette entries and redundant pixels and by automatically reducing the number...
- 484 Kb
- Nov 06, 2012
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Pivot Stickfigure Animator2.2.5
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- Popularity:7
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation... Offers to install promotional, third party software.
- 2.48 Mb
- Jun 12, 2012
- Windows 7
- Free
Cliplets1.1.1
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Cliplets is a new app from Microsoft Research that demonstrates the concept of juxtaposing still and dynamic imagery. In a nutshell, the program allows you to separate an animated object from a 10 second video clip and overlay...
- 27.2 Mb
- Dec 20, 2010
- Win XP
- Free
Tales Animator3.01
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- Popularity:4
Tales Animator is a unique tool to create custom 2D and 3D cartoon animations in AVI format. It does not require any graphical talent to get started since it includes several of ready-to-use cartoon characters. All you need to...
- 5.29 Mb
- Apr 05, 2010
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Pencil0.4.4b
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Pencil is a traditional 2D animation software that enables you to create pencil sketches and animated them to create hand-drawn cartoon animations using both bitmap and vector graphics. The program provides several standard...
- 2.00 Mb
- Jun 04, 2009
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Sqirlz Water Reflections2.6
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Sqirlz Water Reflections enables you to easily create image effects, that add an animated pool of water to any image. You can choose from a variety of ripples, and control details such as wave size and perspective, and...
- 1.70 Mb
- Apr 16, 2009
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Sqirlz Morph2.1
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Sqirlz Morph allows you to morph two, three or more images together, and save your animation as a Flash movie, AVI video clip, or GIF animation. As with other morphing tools, you place special control points over important...
- 2.62 Mb
- Jun 08, 2007
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Powerbullet Presenter1.35
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Powerbullet Presenter allows you to create multi-page Flash presentations, using a simple drag and drop interface and no technical expertise required. You can easily insert sounds or voice recordings (MP3 or WAV files), images...
- 4.26 Mb
- Feb 06, 2003
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WinMorph3.01
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WinMorph is a high performance Morphing and Warping application that you can use to warp and distort images. Create simple animations like a car moving along a road, or zooming into a picture, or build complex morphing movies...
- 365 Kb
- Jun 20, 2002
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Trouts GIF Optimizer2.3
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Trout's GIF Optimizer enables you to reduce the size of your animated GIF images by optimizing the animation frames. You can apply the optimization and then preview the results before saving. Trout's GIF Optimizer...
- 19 Kb
- Nov 27, 2001
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UnFREEz2.1
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UnFREEz is a small animation tool that will take a series of GIF images and use them as frames to create a single, animated GIF file. Just drag and drop some GIF images as animation frames (they should all be of the same...
- 1.05 Mb
- Feb 17, 2001
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Microsoft GIF Animator1.0
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Microsoft GIF Animator is an old classic from Microsoft that lets you create GIF animations by combining multiple GIF images (frames). You can set frame delays, dimensions, number of loops and adjust the color palette for all...
- 925 Kb
- Jun 16, 2000
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ScreenRip321.0 beta
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ScreenRip32 is a screen capture utility that lets you capture your entire desktop, selected areas, regions or application windows and save the screenshot in GIF, JPG, BMP or ICO format. In addition to standard captures, the... Offers to install promotional, third party software.
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