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Zoobe Pets - 3D animated video messages for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store. App of the Day: (VIDEO) Zoobe Pets. Send messages through Zoobe pets. Tell them what to say and they'll do the rest. No more need to text a smiley face when you're happy, or a sad face when you're upset as Zoobe pets can express your emotions for you.

Gone are the days of putting effort into writing a heart felt message, or putting on your angriest voice to have a go - now you can get a rabbit to do it for you, or even a cat… or a bear… or a pig! Just record your message and the 3D avatar will use its speech recognition technology to lip-sync and relay your message to the desired recipient. Take a picture of where you would like your pet to be standing, select how you want the animal to dress and how you want it to act, whether that be happy, sorry, angry, sad or cute and you're good to go. Just imagine you've upset your partner, you send them a message with a little bunny rabbit saying 'I wuv you, I'm vewy vewy sowwy' - jobs a goodun. Who couldn't get all mushy over that? Check out the app trailer below… About Zoobe Pets. Toon Hero.

Toon Hero Lets You Build Animated Stories on your iPad. By Sam | August 9, 2013 | 1 comment Toon Hero is a beautiful and easy to use animation app with high quality content from the likes of Jim Henson Company and National Geographic. Users of all ages can create animated scenes that can be intuitively shared using social media.

Characters, both free and paid, are animated using simple gestures to move, resize, and change their position in the pseudo ‘3D’ backgrounds. Perhaps the most intuitive part of the animation process is adding dialog which is accomplished when character recording is enabled and any sound the microphone captures triggers a mouth animation. “For years, major studios have produced their own storylines and limited their licensing of characters only to manufacturers and advertisers. Now, with the Toon Hero app, people from the ages of eight to eighteen to forty eight will have the opportunity to bring these characters to life by using their own creativity and imagination,” says Shona Grundy, CEO of Trigger Happy.

Toon Hero iPad app gets children animating favourite cartoon characters. Andy Robertson Chief GeekDad Trigger Happy, a VC funded Auckland company, is preparing to launched an iPad app it says will revolutionise how we related to our favourite cartoon characters. I visited the small band of developers and storytellers to find out why they have been creating such a buzz in the New Zealand press, and whether they are about to break out into global recognition. Their app is called Toon Hero and, as I soon discovered, lets you create short cartoons of surprising complexity and depth with simple controls and familiar franchise characters. By selecting a layered background and cartoon protagonists users play puppet-master, acting out the different chapters of the stories they want to tell with a range of touch gestures.

It's the sort of interface that is clumsy to explain but fluid to use. Each background scene has various paths along which the characters can be led with a touch. Tigger Happy's trump card here is Shona Grundy, CEO and co-founder. About Toon Hero. Toon Hero iPad Lets you Animate Famous Cartoons Characters.

About Go!Animate. How to use GoAnimate: Quick Video Maker. How to use GoAnimate: Full Video Maker. Voki Home. In the Languages Classroom. The ability to speak the foreign language in question can safely be described as the principal objective of learning foreign languages. However, it can often prove difficult to assess your pupils’ ability to speak the foreign language in the classroom, as time and numbers often conspire against us.

If you do find them time, for many pupils, speaking in the classroom involves being put in a very tricky spot. Not only do they have to say something of consequence in front of their teacher and fellow pupils, they also have to pronounce all those strange sounds correctly, while ensuring that they get the grammar right. Rather them than me! As a foreign languages educator, Voki has provided me with a fantastic way to assess my pupils’ speaking ability, whilst providing them with a means to speak the language in a way they find both engaging and motivating, and that builds their confidence.

Lesson planning with Voki My pupils don’t use Voki in every lesson. Voki’s Advantages. Tellagami ™ for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Tellagami App teacher tutorial. Tellagami- Tell ‘em What You Know! | teachthrutech. My wife Jennifer, @jwagner_wagner, introduced me to a new app a couple weeks back that I have had a great time playing with called Tellagami. It is FREE…which is something we all love. Tellagami is an app that allows you to create a 30 second clip to share information with others.

You design an avatar-like character, add a background, then type in the text or record your own voice to share the knowledge you want. Here is how it works. I start by creating a character. I can add “Emotion” to my character by choosing a facial expression. Next I select the”Background”. The character will default to the middle of the screen. I am now ready to record. I have two options to record. Once I am happy with the results, I have the option to save to the camera roll and/or share via Facebook, Twitter, email, or text. Check out my Gami on Kiva’s here! Like this: Like Loading... Three Pigs Tellagami Sample. The great thing about this video. What is a Gami?