HUE Animation Studio

Description

HUE Animation Studio contains everything a budding animator needs to make stop motion movies and time-lapse videos. Whether you’re making a LEGO brickfilm with lasers and explosions, reshaping reality in a claymation movie, or watching a flower bloom using time-lapse photography, you can bring any object to life in minutes with this easy-to-use software. With your online HUE account, you can download free printable backgrounds, cut-out puppets, sound effects, storyboard templates, and a phenakistoscope. There are also activity guides that have been designed to help students create time-lapse videos and include tips and techniques for creating a stop motion project from script to screen.

The camera has a unique design that is flexible, portable and built to last. Capture the ideal shot with the camera’s manual focusing ring. Simply turn the silver ring around the camera’s lens until the image is crystal clear. Works with fingers of all sizes. The HUE HD camera is also a fully-featured USB webcam on its own. It can be used as a basic USB camera/microphone for console and PC gaming, making YouTube videos, logging in to remote classes, or home tutoring. The built-in microphone features noise reduction/cancellation, a sampling rate of 8000/16000 Hz and accuracy of <5 PPM.

Get animating in 5 easy steps:
1. SET UP. Install the HUE Animation software and plug in your HUE HD camera.
2. TAKE PICTURES. Capture each frame as you move your character. The Onion Skin feature will show you a ‘ghost’ of the previous frame to ensure continuity and make sure your movie looks the way you want it.
3. ADD SOUND. Record your own voice or import sound effects and music. The software allows you to record and play voiceovers and music at the same time across two separate audio tracks. It’s easy to move, trim, and control the volume of your audio clips.
4. EDIT FRAMES. Add text and special effects to specific frames. Copy, edit, move, and delete images. Group and reverse the frame order. Use the Green Screen (Chroma Key) tools to add background images and create special effects such as flight.
5. PLAY YOUR MOVIE. Watch your finished creation directly in the animation timeline and then upload it to YouTube or other video sharing sites.

Software Features:

• Play your movie back at any time
• Import music and sounds, or record your own
• Add text and special effects
• Copy, edit, move, and delete animation frames
• Share movies on YouTube
• Onion skinning
• Timelapse
• Green screening (Chroma Key)

System Requirements
HUE Animation requires a PC with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 or XP and graphics drivers with OpenGL 2.0 support.
Stop Motion Studio requires Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11+
512MB RAM (1GB recommended)

Ages: 7+

Includes
HUE HD camera
USB to mini-USB cable
camera base
backdrops and cut-outs to print
HUE Animation software (single license)
HUE Book of Animation

Resources

Blog: Everything You Need to Know About HUE Cameras
Blog: Easily Get Started with the HUE HD Pro & Intuition Software
Blog: Uses and Benefits of HUE Cameras in the Classroom
Blog: Using a HUE Camera and Animation Studio in the Classroom