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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | August 2007[1][2] |
| Founder | Alvin Hung |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, CA, United States |
Key people | Gary Lipkowitz (COO) |
| Services | Video production |
| Website | goanimate |
GoAnimate (formerly stylized as Go!Animate until 2013) is a cloud-based platform for making animated business videos. It allows users to develop both narrative videos, in which characters speak with lip-sync and move around, and video presentations, in which a voice-over narrator speaks over images and props, which may also move around. GoAnimate provides users with drag-and-drop tools[3] that the company's website indicates can be used to access thousands of character models, backdrops, and other assets to create scenario-based videos – like political videos[4] depicted during the 2012 presidential campaign.[5] Scholars and students also use the product to combine audio files from historical moments with animated re-creations.[6] GoAnimate is written in ActionScript3, using Adobe Flash, but on a blog post in late October 2015, it was announced that it will migrate to HTML5 starting on January 4, 2016,[7] which all non-business themes will become compatible to HTML5 with backwards compatibility to that, and also with little or no exceptions (saving nonbusiness themes in video as starter).
History
GoAnimate was founded in 2007 by Alvin Hung.[1][2] It originated from Hung’s desire to create an animated story for his wife, evolving to an animated video production tool.
In February 2015, GoAnimate collaborated with Wix to make a Video Maker application for its website creation service.[8]
References
- ^ a b Sciacca, Annie (August 16, 2013). "Alvin Hung: Founder & CEO, GoAnimate". Entrepreneur profile. San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ a b "Who we are". About GoAnimate. goanimate.com. 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ Ganci, Joe. "Go and Animate with Go!Animate". Learning Solutions Magazine. The eLearning Guild. Retrieved March 26, 2013.
- ^ Johnson, Abby. "Look Out Politicians – Animated Videos Just Got Easier To Make". Web Pro News. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ Cavna, Michael (October 17, 2011). "GoAnimate goes political: You can make and post your own election-season cartoons". Washington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ Barnes, Robert (October 22, 2014). "The Supreme Court's devotees go DIY". Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "HTML5 Is Coming!".
- ^ "Welcome - GoAnimate Video Maker".
External links
- Official website
- Official website (for schools)