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Sometimes you get stuck. It’s true we have all been stuck at one time or another. Sometimes we are physically stuck, be it due to lack of transportation, weather, or that unfortunate time you got your hand stuck in the jar trying to get that last cashew (I know I’m ...

Drum roll please, we’re presenting to you the Moshi Monsters: Moshi Movies stop motion animated movie kit for Windows and Mac! Moshi Movies contains everything that you need to create your own monsteriffic stop motion animated movies. Included in the package is a fully-featured animation software, a HUE HD camera ...

Apple's recent Q3 earnings report indicated a record adoption of iPads in education. There’s certainly something to be said by Apple’s path of taking over the world. As a small business it’s both a blessing and curse… on one side their ability to transform how we all interact and work ...

The 10th edition of London International Animation Festival starts today, October 25th, and will be on until November 3rd. Main screenings will be taking place at the Barbican. LIAF 2013 will open with the screening of Persistence of Vision and will be followed by 10 Comedy Animations. On Saturday 26th ...

Last week I had the opportunity to present and run a hands-on SAM Animation workshop at Yale with our partner Kaplan Early Learning. It was a timely event with October celebrated as Connected Educator Month, considering we were connecting through education technology across international waters! The event itself was the ...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's a question we are all asked, at one point in time or another. And it seems that we are always way more certain about our future career paths the younger we are...why is that? Perhaps it goes back to ...

Halloween is just around the corner, so we compiled a list of animated movies packed with supernatural forces and monsters to watch on this spooky night when the undead wander around… FRANKENWEENIE (2012) After The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Corpse Bride (2005), this is another one of Tim Burton’s ...

In our everyday lives we have certain things that we know, we believe, and that guide us in how we operate. Be it an individual decision, a professional interaction, the way we learn, they way we accomplish a task, or simply doing something as basic as walking, we have a ...

As mentioned in a previous post, I tend to approach all things with the self-expectation for an A+ result. At 30 and running a company, I’ve realized this simply is an unnecessary – and impossible expectation. But, that doesn’t mean it’s any easier to embrace, particularly through the most recent ...

The fifth edition of the Montreal Stop Motion Festival will be taking place from 18th to 20th October. It will open on Friday night with screening of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas as it is 20 years since the release of this musical stop motion movie. Earlier this year, ...

Red Bird is approaching her 6-month birthday, so we decided to celebrate by building up her community of creators around the world! By Thanksgiving we're looking to give away a free mini-iPad to a school or organization using myCreate and/or SAM Animation. How do you enter to win? It's simple! ...

You can now win a HUE camera or a Hue Animation Studio! For your chance to win either of these prizes, go to this website: http://www.seomraranga.com/2013/10/hue-webcam-competition All you have to do to be entered into this competition is to come up with three words made of minimum four letters, using ...

This past weekend I had the joy of attending the RIDE Technology Conference in Providence, RI. In addition to the amazing experience of being able to mingle with 750 like-minded educators, technology professionals, edTech entrepreneurs, and being able to present as part of the EdSurge edTech Start Up project; I ...

You have all heard a little bit about how my mornings start in past posts. For the purpose of this post, we are going to fast forward through the antics of my children, school drop off, personal hygiene, and daycare adventures, and get to what I like to consider that ...

Today’s featured review is from Jeuxvideo-world, a French website which specialises in high tech gadgets and gaming news. They’ve taken a look at our HUE HD Camera from the perspective of gamers who might want to use a webcam for recording Let’s Play (LP) videos. Even if you don’t plan ...

A couple of weeks ago a new innovative startup, Play-i, released an infographic on what holds girls back from exploring a career in Computer Science. This infographic proceeds an interview I gave to eSchoolNews speaking to a few tactical approaches we can take both in and outside the classroom to ...

Brandon here, Chief Technology Officer, here at iCreate. Just wanted to drop in and share some great news about our newly released myCreate 2.0. While I was on schedule to share my top 5 apps, truth is I have way more exciting news to share: myCreate 2.0 is here and ...

I’m going to let you all in on a little secret, and give you a little insight into a younger Jason. The year was 1995, I was a sophomore in high school, I had long hair, and I discovered something. What did I discover you ask? I discovered art. Let ...

Oh No! We have discovered that there is a bug in our latest myCreate App Update for iOS7. In the latest update, when you enter the home screen you are unable to create a new project due to a lack of a text box. You can still access previously created ...

We were thrilled to see that the August 2013 issue of At Home Parenting magazine selected HUE Animation Studio for its ‘Kids Love... TO LEARN’ feature! Did any of our regular readers get a chance to check it out? ...