GoAnimate Review

GoAnimate is an incredibly fun and innovative tool used to create your own animations.  I am not just talking about creating still animations, but creating actual movie animations!  How cool is that?  There are several themes you can pick for making your animation, including politics, cartoon classics, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Happy Bunny, and more.  There are plenty of options that can be utilized on GoAnimate, such as: text bubbles, different expressions/actions, backdrops, characters, etc.  When inserting a text bubble, you can just have the words appear in the bubble, or actually get an automated voice to say the words for you.  This is an excellent idea and really adds variety to what you can do.  When inserting characters in your animation, there are many different expressions/actions you can use.  You can make the characters’ facial expressions sad, happy, angry, confused, and sick, among many others.  As for actions, you can make the characters jump, dance, fall down, walk, run, etc.  These facial expressions and actions are all distinct from each other, and look great.  Last but not least, the characters.  There are many characters that you can choose from on GoAnimate.  In each different theme, some characters are free to use, but others you have to pay for (using real money) to earn “GoBucks”.  The price range is from $10 - $100.  This is one downside of GoAnimate.  I was hoping that I could gain all the characters over time, but it appears that I was wrong.  Fortunately, there is still a healthy variety of characters to choose from.  Here is a demo video of GoAnimate, a GoAnimate movie based off of Star Trek, and a hilarious screenshot.  I found another review that summed up GoAnimate nicely as well.  At the end of the day, GoAnimate is a brilliant website for creating animations, and I will give it a score of 8.5/10.