YouTube Animated Video Creators Now Available

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YouTube gets 35 hours’ worth of video uploads per minute. This includes viral hits (like that Friday song that got 40+ million views) and some outliers that almost never get watched. If you’d like to join the craze, you don’t have to own video-recording tools.

It seems you don’t have to look nice, either. YouTube has made available a handful of tools that let you create animated videos with stock animated characters. Check out http://www.youtube.com/create and you’ll be offered three movie makers:

• Xtranormal
• Goanimate
• Stupeflix

No voice recording is needed. You will just need to type in the script, and the software will do the animating and talking for you.

Of course, real videos are more exciting, and real actors are more appealing. But if you’re tight on resources, or you intend to make a parody out of video-making, these apps are a great alternative to real people. The apps will require you to buy a certain number of points, although some scenery and actors will be available for free.

Pretty soon, we’ll probably see feature-length movies done with animated characters like these. Check out the sample below.