Product Review of Easy Stop Motion Studio: Introduction to Animation
Spread the love Introduction to Animation -This app exposes kids to animation at an early age. It starts with a video tutorial (without audio or text) that lets kids get to work immediately.
They can record their voice and add it to the video as voice-overs. Text direction and orientation can be adjusted for kids whose native language is not English. Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id593847174
What Users Love About the App “What a great app. In an age of loud, awful, 5-second bursts of noise and instant ‘gratification’, here is a quiet app that asks you to be patient.
Your patience will be hugely rewarded. My 6 year old is learning how to use it, and sitting still started out as a challenge, but now that she is seeing her movie take shape she works harder for longer periods of time.” “This app, cleverly designed, offers exercises in animation, from simple to complex, using shapes moved by the fingers.
The completed films can be saved and viewed, over and over. Limited only by a child’s patience and imagination. All who try this will have a new respect for the meticulous work of animators!”
“An app a child can grow with, progressing up the levels of complexity. Thanks to the designers for teaching something I thought was lost forever: persistence. This is really an innovative and attractive application!”
“This is a wonderful application and my little kid likes it very much. She is always immersed in the game, forgetting time and everything around. With bugs fixed and updates, this application gives more outstanding performance and brings even better playing experience.”
“This app is a very good app because you can be creative and you get to make all your dreams come true and you make them a video.” What Users Dislike About the App “This game is fun and enjoyable but there needs to be more shapes allowed.
And sometimes different creations we make get deleted somehow.” “This app seems like it is made for babies. Your resizing system is very hard to use.
It is very limited. I do not think it should be for 6-8 year old because it seems like it should be for 3-5 year old.” “I think there should be voice allowed and I was trying to take a picture and the picture button would not work.
I think you should also have two levels like an easier level like you have now and a harder level like maybe also being able to use voice and draw in your thing.” “I think it would be helpful to add some more functionality to this app, such as audio recording, typing features, and being to draw or write. This would allow students to create projects and share their creations with other students.”
“It would be great to have some more general backgrounds-maybe a forest, ocean, and skyscrapers that students could insert behind their animation.
One issue we’ve had on the expert level is a “hot tip” box popping up and not disappearing very easily (tapping on it seems to work but sometimes it takes 5-6 taps).”