HUE Animation Toolbox offre aux jeunes créateurs tout ce dont ils ont besoin pour donner vie à des histoires par le biais de l’animation en stop motion.
Il contient la caméra HUE HD, un logiciel d’animation facile à utiliser et des outils et matériaux d’animation pour des heures infinies de plaisir créatif et d’apprentissage ludique.
Il suffit d’installer le logiciel, de connecter la caméra et vous êtes prêt à commencer à animer en utilisant la pâte à modeler, les personnages prédécoupés, et le plateau de tournage multiface inclus.
Lorsque vous avez terminé, partagez votre chef-d’œuvre avec vos amis et votre famille, ou mettez-le en ligne et montrez votre création au monde entier !
C’est la parfaite introduction à la réalisation de films, à la narration d’histoires et à la créativité numérique pour les jeunes cinéastes de 7 ans et plus.
Le kit HUE Animation Toolbox fait partie des produits finalistes pour le label Junior Design Awards 2025.
The ultimate movie-making kit for young creators!
If your kids love storytelling and creative projects, they will be thrilled to receive HUE Animation Toolbox, a dream gift for aspiring animators!
This bumper box of movie magic is bursting with everything budding animators need to create stop motion movies (and time-lapse videos) from script to screen. They can bring their ideas to life by creating characters to star in endless stories straight from their own imagination, or create new adventures for favourite characters like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep or Pingu.
Whether you’re making brickfilms with lasers and explosions, reshaping reality in a claymation movie or watching a flower bloom using time-lapse photography, any object can be brought to life in minutes with HUE Animation Toolbox!
What’s in the box?
The beautiful gift box features hand-sculpted clay dinosaurs and papercraft characters on the outside. Open it up and it transforms into a cosmic animation stage featuring ready-to-film claymation space scenes.
This all-in-one kit includes an award-winning HUE HD camera, desktop animation software and the HUE Book of Animation. It’s also packed with tools, materials and activities so budding animators can dive in and start creating right away!
The professional-grade animation clay, modelling tools and felt are ideal for shaping your wildest ideas into unique characters, while the storyboard template, coloured pencils, sticky notes and sticky tack help to develop those ideas into fully-fledged storylines. The model-making mat offers tried-and-tested tips for taking your claymation creations to the next level.
If you prefer to skip the modelling and jump straight into mastering the process of animation itself, there are premade pop-out cardboard characters, props and activities to try, along with the HUE Book of Animation projects, downloadable templates and tutorial videos. There’s also a double-sided ‘green’ screen so that more experienced animators can use advanced techniques right out of the box.
Simply install the animation software on your computer then connect the colourful HUE HD USB camera to begin animating in moments. If you want to add to your project away from your desk, there’s also a mobile phone tripod and link to a free mobile app so that you can keep animating on the go.
With the HUE Animation Toolbox you can race your own toy vehicles, sculpt hilarious clay characters with huge googly eyes, star as a disco-dancing paper puppet, battle aliens in an intergalactic adventure and much, much more!
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HUE Animation Toolbox
US $199.95 ex. VAT
🎬 Lights! Camera! EDUCATION! 🎬
When making cool stop motion movies you aren’t just playing, you’re planning, problem-solving and creating from start to finish. Hands-on and imagination-heavy, HUE Animation Toolbox encourages learning by doing, experimenting and having fun.
Creativity and imagination
Every movie starts with an idea or story and with HUE Animation Toolbox, 100% of the creativity belongs to the animator. While dreaming up events, characters and building fantastical worlds, they can practice storytelling and artistic expression in a way no video game can replicate.
Active screen time and balanced play
Stop motion animation promotes a balanced use of technology by encouraging children to step away from screens to write stories, paint backgrounds and build characters and props for their films. The process provides a platform where they can simultaneously develop digital ability alongside more traditional artistic skills.
Rather than passively consuming on-screen content, using animation software engages and challenges creators in a creative and meaningful way while editing videos, designing title pages and adding special effects.
Sequencing and literacy skills
The act of scriptwriting and storyboarding is a fantastic way for kids to practise storytelling, literacy and sequencing skills as they outline key elements of their movie plot.
Visual sequencing activities such as storyboarding can also benefit people with learning differences or additional needs (including SEN/Special Educational Needs), providing them with a way to put their thoughts on paper and express their ideas pictorially.
Communication and self-expression
Animation gives children the freedom to bend the rules of reality as anything they imagine can be vividly brought to life on screen. This safe, creative space encourages them to test ideas and express themselves in a fun and liberating way.
Recording voice-overs challenges children to speak aloud and experiment with tone, emotion or humour while performing different characters. Role-playing can be beneficial in helping children to find their voice, develop communication skills and appreciate different points of view.
Neurodivergent animators can explore imaginative ways to share their feelings and ideas even if they are nonverbal; there are no limits on self-expression through stop motion animation.
Collaboration and Social Emotion Learning (SEL)
Who will be the director? Who will be in the art department? Who will make the invitations for the movie premiere film screening? Making movies with siblings, friends or classmates encourages communication and SEL skills as they negotiate roles and collaborate. When it comes to animation, everyone can take on a role that suits their abilities and interests.
Critical thinking and problem solving
How do you film an underwater scene? How do you make a spaceship fly? How do I stop this puppet from falling down?!!! Animation is so much more than moving models and capturing photos, it’s about building persistence and resilience, figuring out how things work and troubleshooting tricky problems.
Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
Stop motion is all about the tiny details. Sculpting clay characters and moving small objects frame by frame requires a steady hand, a sharp eye and a pinch of patience. As children learn to animate their characters, they naturally strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination all while having fun.
Those who struggle with fine motor skills can take their time and use the software’s ‘onion-skinning’ feature to help them line up their characters even if something is knocked over between scenes, ensuring that with perseverance anyone can create smooth animations.
“If excitement for animation is something you want to encourage, HUE Animation Toolbox is definitely for you. The packaging of the kit itself creates a sense of awe and wonder with its brightly coloured and high-quality clay imagery. I can just imagine the faces of a class full of children staring back at me, eagerly, as they lay their eyes on the dinosaur-clad box!”
Ruth Astley, Teach Primary Magazine
Your animation adventure starts here!
Step 1. Install the animation software
Download Stop Motion Studio for HUE, the desktop animation software for Windows and macOS. Fully-featured yet easy-to-use, the software provides all the tools needed to create simple gif animations or dynamic movies with title pages and end credits, green screen sequences and special effects.
Thanks to its assortment of in-app animation guides and suite of bite-sized software tutorials, complete beginners can start animating within minutes, while more experienced users can explore advanced features at their own pace.
🎥 Watch our Stop Motion Studio for HUE tutorials on YouTube to learn tips, tricks, and professional techniques for making your animations shine.
Step 2. Find some animation inspiration
The Videos
Kick-start your creativity by exploring our HUE Book of Animation playlist on YouTube. Watch a mix of fun, quirky and jaw-dropping stop motion films created to inspire animators of all ages. These examples will spark ideas for your own stories, characters and sets and prove that you don’t need big blockbuster budgets to make movie magic.
The Book
After watching the videos, open up the HUE Book of Animation to take a peek behind the scenes and learn how the movie magic is made with step-by-step instructions.
This ingenious book contains tips, tricks and stop motion secrets to guide budding Tim Burtons through the moviemaking process, from the first frame to the closing credits.
Whether they’re encountering epic alien battles in Space Hero, racing paper cars in Model Car SmashUps or wreaking revenge in Duck, Duck, Poop!, each adventure blends creative storytelling with STEM skills.
Step 3. Plan your movie
Every great film starts with a plan! Use the giant storyboard sheet to map out your story, scene by scene just like a Hollywood director. Sketch characters, note camera angles and jot down dialogue so you’re ready to roll when filming begins.
Whether it’s a two-minute comedy or a sprawling space epic, storyboarding helps you stay organised, maintain continuity and bring your vision to life.
Step 4. Make something awesome
Build characters, sets and props using the included clay, felt, activity sheets, and craft materials. Follow the projects in the HUE Book of Animation or dream up entirely new worlds of your own.
Cool fact alert! 🤯 The HUE Clay in your kit is the same professional modelling clay (formerly called Newplast) known to be used by Academy Award winning Aardman Animations, creators of world famous claymation films such as Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run.
Step 5. Animate your first movie
Simply set up your scene, launch the software, connect the camera and you’re ready to start animating! The HUE HD camera’s flexible neck means you don’t need a tripod 😁 You can frame tricky close-ups and dramatic angles with just a twist and a tilt.
Step 6. Share your creation!
Prepare your speech because it’s time to roll out the red carpet! Invite friends and family to your premiere, or upload your masterpiece to your favourite video-sharing platform and share it with the whole world!
Don’t forget to tag your videos with #HUEanimation so we can see (and celebrate) your work! Who knows… your movie might just be the next big stop motion hit!
All that is left to do is pop some corn, dim the lights and get comfy, because it’s SHOWTIME! 🍿
✨Let the movie magic begin! ✨
The boring (but important) stuff…
Technical Specification
Package contents
- A huge claymation themed gift box (355 x 255 x 86mm) that transforms into a multi-side animation stage.
- A flexible, Plug & Play HUE HD USB camera, camera base and USB to mini-USB cable packaged in a shockproof case.
- The HUE Book of Animation.
- Stop Motion Studio software for newer versions of Windows and macOS (perpetual single user license).
- HUE Animation software for older versions of Windows and Mac OS X.
- A free mobile app for animating on the go.
- A starter pack of HUE Clay, professional animation clay (formerly Newplast).
- Clay model-making mat with tips and ideas.
- Wooden model-making tools.
- A double-sided blue/green screen.
- HUE Tack (aka sticky tack).
- Sticky Notes.
- Giant storyboard sheet.
- Felt sheets.
- Pencils.
- Mobile phone tripod.
- Pop-out cardboard characters, props and activities such as: dancing paper puppets, eco-friendly googly eyes, aliens and a “Ratoscope”.
- Downloadable videos, templates, backdrops and cut-outs to print.
Your HUE HD camera is covered by a 3-year warranty, with full customer support.
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.
- Onion skinning.
- Time-lapse.
- Reverse videos.
- Green screening (Chroma Key).
- Share your finished videos online.
- Support for 17 languages.
System requirements
- Stop Motion Studio requires Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11+.
- Available USB Type-A port (works with USB Type-C adapters).
Stop Motion Studio for HUE animation software download.
If you require the older HUE Animation software for classic Macs and older versions of Windows, please see the HUE Animation download page.
Links
Find out what parents and teachers say in our Testimonials area, and view our Awards page to see the prizes our HUE Animation products have won.
View animations made by our community on our YouTube Channel.
For more information, please check our Tutorials and if you need help please search the FAQs or contact us.
FAQs: HUE Animation (General)
Turn the silver focus wheel around the camera’s lens until the image is pin-sharp. The camera’s manual focus gives you complete control at all times.
The kit includes a perpetual single user license of Stop Motion Studio for HUE, which requires Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11+.
Alternative ‘HUE Animation’ software is available for older computers (see the system requirements for a full list of supported operating systems).
Download the software and register the code from the back of the animation book to claim your license. Detailed instructions are in the Quickstart Guide and Tutorials.