HUE Animation Studio: Complete Stop Motion Kit (Camera, Software, Book) for Windows/macOS (Blue) with Carry Case

I have been wanting to try my had at stop motion for a while. All these ideas that I have but have never got around to trying.I saw that this is mainly aimed at children and schools, but works fine on my laptop. You get the program to load onto your computer, the camera (in a verity of colours to chose from) and even some different coloured plasticine so that you can make your own characters!The camera is on a flexible neck so you can get different positions. It does not have the zoom capability (you actually have to move the camera closer to the item! Cheek.) but you can focus it. I know that sounds obvious, but you never know with these things.It takes a bit of time to load it on, then you have to go to their website and authenticate your purchase, then you get the full (I think) programme.It is reasonable easy to set up once all is done, plug in the camera, load it up using the short cut and off you go. I will admit that ut is annoying that every time that you load it up it defaults to my webcam for the camera, but under "Camera" at the top you just select the Hue camera and there it is.The programme itself is very basic. You have a verity of colours (all of 6!) to edit the finished movie, one frame at a time by the way, but if you are just doing very basic stop motion, or stop motion that you done want to edit then this one is fine.It does have a recording capability when editing so you can add voiced or sounds effects to the finished item if you so wish.All in all this is a great way to get into stop motion. And with the huge amount of free video editing software available on the new then you can just move your movie made on this software into them, and edit them with more cutting edge techniques.I would defiantly recommend this to anyone who would like to get into stop motion. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

Hue animation is brilliant. It is a complete package - camera, animation program and easy to follow book of exciting ideas.I am a professional animator and use HUE for workshops with children and adults, and sometimes just to set up and do timelapse animation our of my window or to test an idea quickly at home. It is very simple to pick up and use straight away and extremely good fun. I would recommend it to families (both of my nieces LOVE it and their parents play with it at night), or for anyone else young or old, with an interest in animation or with an idea to make a film.This is the perfect place to begin playing

Very easy to set up and use, my 9yr old son got started as soon as the set arrived and is having hours of fun exploring and utilising the various features. Very good buy would recommend.

The media could not be loaded. I bought this for my Lego-crazy nephew for his birthday. It must have been a big hit with him because he's making movies with his Lego sets all the time these days. He used to be glued to his XBox but he's doing something creative and providing lots of laughs for our family.I had a go last weekend and the software is pretty intuitive and just right for this age group. It's got all the features like onion-skin, green-screen, importing music mp3s and you-tube upload. Once he'd grasped the basics he figured the rest out without even looking at the instructions and there was no stopping him! The camera is cute and funky....maybe I'll buy an animation pack for myself too!

I gave the Hue Animation Studio as a present to my daughter for Xmas after reading nice reviews. Activation was really awkward and would not take the code. I tried to update the software and still the registration was not made. I cleaned it all from the registries and installed the lateset version directly and this time it took the code I was emailed. I guess the average person who does not work in IT would have to rely on their support... not very friendly first approach to the new present.Finally we could use the software but was crashing every 2 or 3 minutes. To continue with it we needed to close the application and reopen it. For a 20 sec animation it took 2 hours and a lot of frustration. Thinking it was my laptop fault I then installed the software on a brand new Windows 7 laptop with an i5 processor, 6GB RAM, an amazing amount of space and a dedicated graphic card and still the same issue. Software bombs out if left unattended for 1 minute or you can use it for 2 minutes!!!!Seeing how frustrated my daughter was I then decided to look for a free application. I tried loads but only one was really cool and working properly: "JellyCam" thanks to ticklypictures.I then decided to write to their technical support and explained all the ins and outs with very detailed information hoping someone would have had the decency to give me at least a samll suggestion: 10 days after and still no email or any contacts whatsoever.As it stands the camera is good, software clearly has got a major bug, money taken and no support given. This is a daylight robbery. Shame on you.

I tried to help an 11 year-old grandchild attempting an animation project by putting together different applications available cheaply on the web or packaged with Windows but the end result was terribly complicated, badly connected and difficult to use with lots of opportunity for the whole thing going wrong and result in discouragement. The Hue Animation Studio is not cheap but it is a straightforward joined-up system which overcomes all of the above difficulties brilliantly. The 11 year old had everything up and running with an animation scene and titles created within an hour or so of opening the box with no help at all. Together with another 11 year-old and some low-voltage shelf lights and improvised scenery he embarked on a blockbuster project and the two boys were happily absorbed for hours. Thoroughly recommended. A second set since purchased for the other 11 year-old!