My dad, who has worked in the field of ESL for several decades, sent me a link to a goofy movie he “made” this morning, which he describes as “An exercise in communication.”
After watching the video, I became intrigued with the site where he made it, xtra normal, which has the motto “If you can type, you can make movies.” You choose the scenery and characters, provide text, add sounds, camera angles, movements, and a few other features, and a 3-D animated video is created. It’s still in beta, and has some quirks that need to be ironed out, but add this to your tool box of “Gee whiz!” fun things you can do on the Internet. Of course, I had to play around with this new tool, and got hooked. So I put together this silly little video introducing this blog.
Warning: once you start playing around on this site, it is extremely hard to stop.
Fun, fun, fun stuff. I was home sick today, so I couldn’t help experimenting.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090310143432780
And you’re right, it’s addictive.
Hillary, I love it! Especially the New Age music–makes your character almost like a motivational speaker
awesome! i have to figure out how to improve my videos http://www.youtube.com/user/itaspeech
xtranormal can help if i can use my own speech, hmm
any suggestions?