GoAnimate.com: Underdog and the Perilous Flight by mikebogle
Kudos to my colleague, Mark Foster, for discovering this absolute gem of a service. GoAnimate is a site that enables you to easily create your own cartoons and animations, using your own story lines, transitions, speech bubbles and sound effects.
I’ve only just scratched the surface on this tool, so there is a whole lot I don’t know. However having spent an hour or so experimenting with the toolset, and creating the above cartoon, I can happily say that GoAnimate is easy to use and yet lets you produce pretty impressive looking results.
Certainly there is the entertainment element to this service, however I also see a great deal of potential for educational value as well. The Common Craft Show has shown us that hand-drawn explanations – completely devoid of a single on-screen pixel – can be used to effectively explain social media concepts. I think GoAnimate could do much the same.
Think of Dudley Do-Right debating open education with Snidely Whiplash, or Spiderman introducing networked learning and Connectivism. Quite seriously I think it could add an entertaining, and thus really engaging, element to the mix.
I’m hoping that there will be a way to download the cartoons you create, and/or upload them to your YouTube account – because I prefer to keep all my digital media stored more or less in the same place. Ultimately the full reality of the service will present itself as I continue to experiment.
You seem like a pretty smart guy with a lot to offer. It’s just a shame that whatever it is you’re doing on GoAnimate doesn’t seem to involve much animation.
Are you even aware that your account on goanimate is making dummy accounts for the sole purpose of becoming a fan of your account?
Seriously? Oh lame. I haven’t logged into that service for months. Whatever is happening there is without my doing. I’ll have a look. Thanks for the info.
Update: I’ve contacted tech support at Goanimate to find out why on Earth I suddenly have 900+ contacts, and their response was:
“I am guessing that you have 900 contacts because of your highly viewed animation. People watched it wherever you have it embedded and have signed up for accounts thru your page.”
The people listed on my profile aren’t accounts I’ve created, they’re just automatically being added as friends somehow. I’ve asked that they integrate an option into the account preferences that let’s you disable this because I prefer to add only certain people as contacts – not everyone who runs across a clip. Ultimately I’ve only ever tinkered briefly with the service anyway…
@Mike Bogle: @Mike Bogle: What’s more of a concern is that, if you haven’t logged into GoAnimate in months, then someone or something is logging in for you because your account is ‘fanning’ all the dummy accounts in return.
There is definitely something not right with your account there.
I’m mainly concerned because you’re showing up on the ‘Most fans of all time’ page at GoAnimate. Passing people who’ve worked really hard over a couple of years to get the number of fans they have.
I’ve described what I’ve observed to GoAnimate support – hopefully they’ll look into it.
Sorry to bug you on blog. Which is actually pretty interesting BTW. Was kind of hoping you might start using GoAnimate in some way to enhance what you’re doing here or on your Youtube channel.
@TET: I appreciate you bringing the whole thing up! GoAnimate support has indicated they have similar concerns as you and already updated my password in case the account was somehow compromised.
I will try and have another look when I can – time is just in short supply these days
Check out this great blog post about GoAnimate – http://tinyurl.com/ycoaj9l
For more fun with animation visit us at http://goanimate.com
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Great blog post about GoAnimate on techticker.net – http://tinyurl.com/ycoaj9l For more fun with animation visit us at http://goanimate.com
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