Community reviews for Easy Stop Motion studio: Introduction to animation

Altogether, I think that is a simple to use app that allows for creativity to extend any geometry lesson. There are many choices of shapes, backgrounds, stencils, and other items that students can choose from to create their own animation. Each feature available is easy to use and students quickly learn how to use the app. This app is a great starter app for animation, and can be a catalyst for future projects involving other animation apps or even green screening apps. If possible, 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.

Overall Easy Studio is an easy app to use for animation. There are a decent number of shapes and colors available for personalization and the ability to re-size, flip and rotate shapes. All of these options are intuitive and work well. Since the app is so open-ended there are many possible ways to fit it into the curriculum with some creative thinking. My students are going to use it later in the year to create a bridge (engineering unit) and also a rocket (related to a book study) and some of them enjoy playing with it during choice time. It's easy enough for 2nd graders to pick up quickly and also has enough to offer older students, especially as an introduction to animation. I like the holiday back grounds, 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). One addition could be to allow students to draw a shape and add that to their animation, for example if the they wanted something like a squiggly line and didn't want to make it from the "c" shapes. However, as is it's great because it makes students think about how they can create a shape or object from other shapes.