Animaker is an award winning, patent pending, creative, affordable, easy to use, SaaS based, DIY video creation platform on cloud.
Subscribers can create Educational assignment videos, Infographic videos, storytelling explainer videos, sales presentation & VC pitch deck. It has 1000+ pre-built characters, icons, layouts, themes, templates & 3000+ maps and is available in English and Latin American Spanish. The platform supports fonts of the top 50 languages. When compared with competition, it takes only a fraction of the time to make videos on Animaker. Subscribers can create videos at only 1% of the cost of using agencies.
Pain Points/Needs:
Audio Content; Audio Creators; Charts; Diagram Creators; Digital Storytelling Creators; Lesson Plan Creators; Map Creators; Modeling Tools; Presentation Creators; Presentation Viewers; Video Creators; Whiteboards
Platform:
Web and Desktop
Walkthrough:
After signing up on the platform user can start with their video making. Initially you have to be chose the purpose of creating the video. The platform gives you the options to choose from corporate, startup, marketing, education and others. In the next step there are templates that you can choose from and customize accordingly also you can opt for blank template and start from the scratch. The existing templates include many options like Explain Your Product, water Facts, USA v/s China Education, Augmented Reality, Online Language Learning Course, Online School Planner, Sports Event and many such that can be used and even customized as per users’ needs. On the left panel, user can chose from the free services by opting for free plans and marking the categories that they are using the tool for. The available categories are Typography, 2D Animation, Handcraft, Infographics, Business, Health, Education, Food, Travel and Sports. Every template you choose initially shows a tutorial as how you can use the tool and customize the video you are about to make. You can add slides, backgrounds, characters, text, numbers, screen effects, music and play with the transition effects just the way you like. The final part is to name the video and you are good to go. From settings export the video on YouTube or Facebook and use it just the way you like.
Pricing:
The product is available in Freemium Model with advanced features in paid version.
For those who subscribe for annual packages: Pricing plans billed annually: $9.00 per month, $19.00 per month & $39.00 per month.
For those who subscribe for monthly packages: Pricing plans billed monthly: $12.00 per month, $25.00 per month & $49.00 per month.
Usability:
Helps students & teachers to create and consume visually appealing Animated videos and presentations for every classroom, school and university. Teachers are using Animaker to have their students submit video assignments. Click below on the hyperlinks to open instructions from teachers to to kids about submitting assignments using Animaker.
A. Putnam County Middle School – Eatonton – GA, US: http://pcmsmediacenter.weebly.com/digital-media-club.html
B. Pleasanton Unified School District – Pleasanton – CA, US: https://sites.google.com/a/pleasantonusd.net/history6th/seventh-grade-wheel/animaker-7th
C. The following is a Teacher Training School which is training Teachers on the use of Animaker.A. Pedacomp (Australian Teacher Training Institute) Wentworth Falls – NSW, Australia: http://www.pedacomp.org/teaching_byod_course_animaker.html
Our Review:
In our opinion, this platform is a good way to make all those supplement videos for the classroom. A nice way to introduce topics that otherwise can be really boring. Also, educators can use it for making presentations and other area that requires an added resource to make things a little easy and fun for all.
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