PhotoPuppet HD & Promo Codes
Written by Heather Leister
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A little while ago I did a review of Toontastic. My children absolutely love that app and our iPad’s memory has been overtaken by their cartoons. This week I have a similar app to tell you about – PhotoPuppet HD. PhotoPuppet HD will allow you to make your own puppets and create detailed, animated films. I love Toontastic for children because it teaches story elements and is extremely easy to use but PhotoPuppet HD is going to provide the next step up for older users.
With PhotoPuppet HD you can create your own puppets from images in your iPad photo gallery. You can also use puppets provided by the app or take their puppets and add in your heads, there are endless possibilities. You can even build your puppets out of different pieces that are separately animated. Several different types of animation are supported by the app. As you build your animations they’re recorded on different tracks, it has a similar look to video editing software. Using buttons on the screen you’ll be able to add in your puppets, change their size and move them around the screen. You’ll be able to save these different tracks so your puppets become personalized and you can use them over and over. As you record your animations you can also add in sound through the iPad’s microphone. As it’s all put together it becomes your unique creation. When your video is complete you’ll have the chance to share it with friends, family or the world. PhotoPuppet supports sharing your videos via Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Email. You can also share your puppets if you have the iPhone app PhotoPuppet Go.
PhotoPuppet HD is a meaty app, I highly suggest going through the help section (app & online) and tutorials before you dive into a film. It definitely has the most features for this type of app but I would hesitate to recommend it for young users. I think it’s going to be best for older Elementary schoolers and beyond. The puppets and animating features are intricate which provides great opportunities for creativity but the potential for frustration as well. I’d suggest younger users stick with Toontastic and the older users go with PhotoPuppet. I definitely think they’ll find it’s a fabulous outlet for your creativity. I did.
*I’ve been given 5 promo codes to give away for PhotoPuppet HD. Hooray! If you’re interested in adding puppeteer to your list of skills then leave me a comment. I’m going to run the contest through Friday and I’ll award the codes Saturday morning. These codes are for an iPad app.*
Price when Reviewed: $2.99
Seller: Morris Cooke
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this app for review purposes.
By kris on Mar 28, 2011
We LOVE toontastic here, and I think my husband and 7yo son would love to try this app out!
By SagePixie on Mar 28, 2011
That’d be awesome!
By Lisa on Mar 28, 2011
Our 6 year old would be thrilled to try this!!
By angel on Mar 28, 2011
yes
By Michelle on Mar 28, 2011
Sounds great!
By Sonia on Mar 28, 2011
My 7 year old loves Toontastic (tried it in first place after reading your opinion) we would love to try this Photopuppet HD.
many thanks to you and to Morris Cooke for this nice opportunity !
By Anna on Mar 28, 2011
Sounds awesome… we’d love to try it!
By amy on Mar 28, 2011
We would love to try this, thanks!!!!!
By Carla on Mar 28, 2011
OHHHH! Social Stories and Comic Strip Conversations here I come! I would love to use this and see how it goes helping my son and others use it for fun and also to help express emotions and situtins! So pick Me! Me! Me!
By perry on Mar 28, 2011
We would love to try this.
By Angela on Mar 29, 2011
Sounds great. Would love to try it out. Thanks!
By Julie on Mar 29, 2011
Love it! My son just made a short clay animation, so I think he’d really enjoy this.
By uma on Mar 29, 2011
Would love to try it out! Do you have any more codes left? I promise I’ll cover them on my site as well
By Amanda on Mar 29, 2011
This looks great…we’d love to try it.
By Susan on Mar 30, 2011
Oh – I would LOVE to be able to try this out with my students – I’ve been reviewing storytelling apps at my site too!
By Michelle Staryos on Apr 1, 2011
I’d like to try this with my students.
By The iPhone Mom on Apr 2, 2011
Congratulations to Amy (#8), Michelle (#16), Amanda (#14), Anna (#7) and Lisa (#3) – your codes are on their way into your inboxes! Thank you to everyone for your entries, to Morris Cooke for sponsoring the contest and Random.org for a website that does the dirty work and picks winners for me.
By lisa on Apr 3, 2011
thanks so much!! our 3 eldest kids LOVE it!!! what a cool app!!