How to Make Your Own Animation

Creating an Animation with Moovly

1. Open Moovly. Go to https://www.moovly.com/ in your computer's web browser.

   1. Keep in mind that Moovly is only free for 30 days, during which time you cannot download a video. If you want to be able to download your animation, try using Animatron.

2. Scroll down and click Start making your movie now. It's a red button near the middle of the page. The animator interface will open and a pop-up window will appear.

3. Enter your name and email address. Type your first name into the "First name" text box, then type your email address into the "Email" text box.

   1. If you'd rather sign up with a social media account, tap the Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn option and follow the on-screen prompts.

4. Check the "I accept" box. It's below the "Email" text box.

   1. If you want to view the privacy statement or the terms and conditions, click the Privacy Statement or the Terms & Conditions link respectively to open the related document in a pop-up window.

5. Click Submit. This is at the bottom of the pop-up window.

6. Navigate through the tutorial. Click through each of the prompts until the tutorial closes. At this point, you can begin animating.

7. Select a group of templates. Click the Moovly Libraries heading in the upper-left corner of the page, then click the title of the template you want to use.

8. Drag an item onto the canvas. Click and drag the item you want to animate onto the white canvas in the middle of the page, then drop it there.

9. Resize and reposition the item. You can click and drag one of the item's corners to resize it, and you can move the item around by clicking and dragging it on the canvas.

10. Click Add animation. It's a box at the bottom of the page. A pop-up menu will appear.

11. Select an animation category. In the pop-up menu, place your cursor over the type of animation you want to apply to the selected item. This will prompt a pop-out menu to appear next to the current menu.

    1. For example, to move the character, you might select the Move & Transform category.

12. Select an animation. Click the animation that you want to apply to your selected item.

    1. If you selected the Move & Transform option, for example, you might click Move left to move the character to the left.

13. Change the animation's speed. You can click and drag the end of the animation's white bar in the timeline to the left to speed up the animation, or you can drag it right to slow down the animation.

14. Add other objects. Click and drag other objects that you want to animate onto the canvas, then animate them as you please by using the Add animation menu.

15. Add a clip. Once you've added enough objects to one clip, you can create a blank clip by clicking Add clip on the lower-left side of the page. You can then add more objects and animations to this clip in order to continue your story.

16. Confirm your email address. Now that you've created your animation, you'll need to confirm your email address in a new tab in order to save it:

    1. Open in a new tab the inbox for the email address you used to create your Moovly account.
    2. Open the "Activate your Moovly account" email.
    3. Click the activation link in the email.
    4. Create a password, then click Continue.

17. Publish your animation. While you can't download animations from Moovly without paying for the premium version of Moovly, you can publish animations to Moovly's servers:

    1. Open your Moovly dashboard if it isn't already open.
    2. Click Publish.
    3. Click Moovly Gallery.
    4. Click OK, I agree.
    5. Enter a title and description, then click Publish.
    6. Copy the link at the bottom of the "Publishing your project" window if you want to share the animation with other people.