Category Archives: PowToon Animation Design

Hollywood Star Joins PowToon’s Staff

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New Effect: The Writing Hand

A lot of PowToon users have been asking us when the WRITING HAND EFFECT will go live?

Well, we are happy to say that we have finally found the talent to make the hand effect work, and it turns out that the best one for the job is a Hollywood star!!!

The Writing Hand is now live!!

Benefit from the special 78% off one-time celebration offer

 

     Take advantage of our 78% off

Limited-time offer in Handy’s honor

 

The Right Guy for the Job

We are honored and humbled to announce that Hollywood Royalty is joining our staff.

Please join us in welcoming…..

Hand E. Fect (you might recognize him from his work as “Thing” in the Addams Family)

Powtoon is a free alternative to PowerPoint and the best Presentation animation software

Our new “PowToon Scientist” will take on a very important role:

He will be responsible for all hand writing effects in PowToon (He spent many years learning Calligraphy in the Tibetan Mountains – he is very good!)

To welcome Handy, we are giving our users the biggest discount we can.

This promotion will only be live for a few days, and for a limited number of subscribers. So If you wanna get the new PowToon with Handy in it – subscribe now.

Get 78% off a PowToon Pro Plan in Handy’s honor.

 

 

 

Create a Powtoon And Win Incredible Prizes

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PowToon needs your help to win the war on those pesky Bullet Points. you know that Bullet Point presentations are BORING. Now it’s your chance to spearhead a commando force with the mission of winning the war to save the audience’s life! The rewards are incredible:  Win eternal glory, a medal of honor, and great prizes.

PowToon : contest 2 2013-01-08 19-33-26

 

What You’ll Need To Do:

Create a Powtoon about boring bullet points (be creative, there are no official guidelines here). Post it to YouTube and share with the world (make sure to write in the description that the video was made using PowToon). The PowToon that will receive the highest nunmber of views on January 31 wins.   Signup here

The Mastery Prize:

* Minimum 5,000 views to win.

  • A new iPad Mini - Value of $329
  • One year of Powtoon Agency license.  Total value of $1594
  • A Voiceover every month for a whole year from Voice Bunny. Total value of $600! 
  • 2 Cool royalty free music tracks  - Value of $30 
  • Special prominent feature of your video and you (or your company) on our website and e-newsletter. -  Priceless!

The Powtoonist Prize:

* No minimum views needed to win. 

  • One year of Powtoon Professional license - total value of $684
  • A gift certificate for voiceovers from Voice Bunny. - Total value of $100
  • 2 Cool royalty free music tracks   - Total value of $30 
  • Special prominent feature of your video and you (or your company) on our website and e-newsletter. -Priceless

We will be adding more cool prizes during january so make sure to keep updated!  * Prizes and contest terms subject to change without notice.  Additional prizes may be awarded at PowToon’s discretion.

 

How To Register

Post your video to YouTube and submit it here.  You may also use this form if you are working on a Powtoon for the contest and have questions.

Who Can Participate?

Any Powtoonist can participate, regardless of their plan type.  If you do not have a PowToon account you can signup for a free trial account here! we have a free 14 day trial.

 

 

 

 

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Katie Davis Calls on Powtoonists Everywhere to Help Create The Next Powtoon Theme!

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Author illustrator Katie Davis is creating a theme for Powtoon.com and now’s your chance to ask her to Katie Davis Loves Powtoondraw elements you’ll later be able to use in your animations.  She has created a great social campaign using PowToon.  Take a look, this is your chance to be part of creating a new Powtoon theme!

 

 

Go to http://katiedavis.com/wishlist/ and submit your suggestions.

How Teachers And Students Are Using PowToon To Flip The Classroom

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Isn’t PowToon an amazing tool to spread your message?  Here are two great examples of how teachers and students use PowToon to do it!

 

Getting the audience’s “Buy In” 

 

Green Human Project using Powtoon

Teacher Uses Powtoon to get the class Motivated:  Green Human Project

Teacher Elizabeth Frank: ”I decided to create a PowToon to introduce this Project Based Learning assignment because I was bored with just giving the students a “letter” or “email” from the company as an entry event. I thought a PowToon would really get the point across and get the students excited about the project they were starting. Most of my classes responded with clapping and a “That was awesome!”. To say the least they were really impressed! I have had several groups ask if they could use PowToon for the presentation aspect of this project.

I loved using PowToon and am desperately trying to figure out another way to incorporate it into my classroom.
Thanks again!”

 

 

Even an 8 year old can sell 

 

The Coolest Kid in School Uses Powtoon

The Coolest Kid in School Uses Powtoon

Check out this Powtoon created by the most adorable 8 year old!  Here is what his father told us  ”My boy is the proudest 8 year old you have ever seen. He is strutting around the school after making such a great video.”

Green Human Project

Category5 Reviews PowToon as an Animation Presentation Solution

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Category5 TV –  The popular internet TV show from Canada – aired a review of PowToon “CNET style”.  Watch here to get an unbiased  up close look into how PowToon can easily be used to create professional web-animations and power power-point alternative presentations.  Check it out!

CAtegory5 reviews Powtoon

Holiday e-Card and Free Animated Video Templates

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Want to create a custom e-Holiday card?  We have some great news – PowToon’s much anticipated holiday theme is now live!  Create a card for your clients, friends or associates share some holiday cheer!

 

 

Wait there is more: holiday card comes with lots of great extras like a snow man you can put together or break apart and even falling snow!

There are so many creative ways to use PowToon, one of our users told us that he wants to rotates the video on his landing page, now with the new theme he can have simply add some winter effects to get the right effect!

Got to try it!

Using PowToon’s Low cost Animated Video Creator And Templates To Increase your Site’s Google Ranking (SEO).

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PowToon presentation on website A Website’s Google search ranking is vital to acquiring new leads and key to revenue generation. Google is always looking for new ways to accurately rank sites and has recently released an update to its ranking algorithm called Panda 2.5. Our inside contact at Google told us that sites containing video or animations indeed rank higher. The algorithm, he suggested, appreciates sites where videos are used organically to enhance the users experience and provide relevant information. So here is our advice for using video to increase your search engine optimization (SEO): Use simple short animated video clips to showcase relevant information about products and services.

Here are the top 4 ways to use PowToon’s video animation software to increase the SEO of your website.

 

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Stop Press: PowToon Scientists develop groundbreaking antidote…

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PowToon’s renegade Scientist have made a gigantic leap forward in their fight against the PRESENTATA BORINGUS SYNDROME (more commonly known as the BORING PRESENTATION EPIDEMIC) that has besieged the world in the last decade.

The renegade scientists assembled in January 2012 to enter into an intense period of research and development in the hope of finding an antidote to the raging epidemic.

 

Speaking in an exclusive interview from PowToon’s secret laboratory, Dr De-Vinci, PowToon’s Chief Sushi Taster said: “There are “powers” who don’t want the antidote to reach the people, but we could no longer stand by and watch the world be overrun with sub-standard presentations and makeshift screen-cast demo clips. We had to take action.”

 

The scientists unveiled two groundbreaking new antidotes to the boring presentation epidemic: COMPOUND “Y” and COMPOUND “ME”

“We have created two extremely potent compounds which contain substances that will grab prospects by the eyeballs and glue them to their seats in anticipation of the presentation’s message.

COMPOUND “Y” – working title “LABEL STYLE” allows Powtoonists to create colorful, visually engaging animated Powtoons with the simplicity of drag-and-drop…

COMPOUND “ME” – working title “Marker Style” actually draws the character onto a white or blackboard background using a  hand that holds a marker or chalk.

 

 

 

PowToon’s Scientists are hopeful that these new PowToon Styles, in addition to their existing Picto Style, will act as important weapons in the fight against the global epidemic that has reached every corner of the presentation universe.

In case you have not registered for the global antidote program, please don’t delay: www.powtoon.com

 

 

How To Make an Explainer Video – Series #1

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Powtoom is revolutionary platform that allows professionals and educators to create eye-popping presentations and animated videos with ease and at a fraction of the usual cost. If you are unfamiliar with PowToon visit the powtoon homepage and watch the introductory video (made using Powtoon).

The video posted below shows you a quick peek at some of PowToon’s easy drag-and-drop features.

 

Have you ever wanted to create an awesome explainer video or just an animated presentation like epipheostudios or grumo (grumomedia) but lacked the tools to do it (coz PowerPoint, Keynote and Prezi just don’t cut it for you)?

Well fear no more – PowToon to the resque.

Here is the the first installment in our series: Creating Awesome Animated explainer Videos Series #1

 

For more tutorials click here