From the blogosphere: Raisie Bay makes animations with HUE
Blogger Raisie Bay has written a glowing review of HUE Animation Studio and shared a few lovely videos made by her creative family! We love the tips she included for other parents who are starting out with animation and the kids made so many models for the videos - truly ...
HUE is sponsoring the SCHOLAR bus project
We're very pleased to be able to announce that we'll be a silver sponsor of the SCHOLAR bus as it makes its way around schools in Scotland this year to meet teachers and students. The bus will travel to ten locations between Ayrshire and Dundee over the course of the ...
Mobile Technology and Jason’s Top 5 Apps
Show of hands: How many of you start your day with your smartphone in your hands? Okay, so now that we have gotten that out of the way, and we all feel a little bit better about admitting our addiction and dependency for instant technology, lets talk about how we ...
Back to School: Taking time to give yourself a gold star
Yes, you're right. This is probably one of the first blog posts you've read this month about 'Back to School' ... OK. Maybe not. But, as they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and it just turns out we do have some reflections on the return to grading, ...
From the blogosphere: Stop motion adventures from Fun as a Gran
We recently featured on Elaine’s charming Fun as a Gran blog, where she talks the reader through introducing HUE Animation to her daughter and grandchildren. Reading the descriptions of the kids quickly getting to grips with the process of stop motion animation took us back to when we first tried ...
Learning to animate? Try watching some classic stop motion films!
Learning to animate? Try watching some classic stop motion films! How did you first become interested in the world of stop motion animation? For many of us, the answer is that we saw a stop motion movie or television series in our youth. The movie industry has been making use ...
It’s never too early to think like an Entrepreneur
I was inspired to write this post today after reading about the Incubator School in LA, CA on EdSurge. A school to foster mini entrepreneurs. Brilliant. And it reminded me of my own early-stage ventures at the age of 10 that I'm still amazed never received VC financing or TechCrunch ...
How do you Create?
Creativity can strike at any moment, and I truly believe that each and every one of us is creative, and has the ability to create amazing things. While some of us are artistically inclined, others have musical talent, and some have creativity in a number of other areas that they ...
From the blogosphere: Gadget Speak calls HUE ‘A useful portable visualiser’
Technology blog Gadget Speak has posted a review of our HUE camera, praising its portability and adaptability when it comes to using it as a visualiser (or document camera, if you're reading this from the US). We've already had a lot of positive feedback from teachers who find it useful that they can pop ...
When Pigs Fly
It’s been an amazing month of flying pigs, and we have loved seeing your creative and inspiring entries for the “When Pigs Fly” animation contest! After wading through the submissions, and watching some amazing usages of myCreate and SAM, we give you our Top 3 animations. Watch them, love them, ...
HUE cameras will be at the BUSTER International Film Festival
We've recently been told that our HUE cameras will be used in teacher training as part of the BUSTER International Film Festival for Children and Youth (BUSTER International filmfestival for børn og unge). The website is available in a choice of English or Danish. BUSTER is a film festival for ...
Technology and our Children
Let me start this post by giving you an insight into my daily morning routine. Its 5:45AM on any given day, it could be Monday, Friday, or Sunday, it truly doesn’t matter when you are 5 years old and the sun is up. You play quietly in your room for ...
Are you a “Creative” Learner?
They say we all learn in different ways, that we have different learning styles, and no two people see things in the exact same light. If we asked you to draw a picture of a cat, or to tell us the story of how that cat likes to sleep in ...
From the blogosphere: Angel Eden tries out stop motion animation
Today’s featured review comes from Abi over at the Angel Eden blog. She’s written a lovely description about her first experiences introducing her children (and husband) to stop motion animation, and she covers the full animation process from start to finish. We particularly enjoyed seeing the results of her family’s ...
Summer Crafts for Kids, and the Kid in all of us
July has come to a close, and August has greeted us with continued summer warmth, long days, and time to explore. As a child I remember spending days-on-end in the summer discovering new things, playing with friends, and making new things. My friends and I (with a little help from ...
Animate! Two Centuries Of Animation From Pencil To Pixel at Dorset County Museum
We're proud to announce that HUE Animation Studio is sponsoring a very special exhibition at Dorset County Museum! ANIMATE! Two Centuries Of Animation From Pencil To Pixel13 June - 19 October 2013 The museum has gathered some of the most influential names in the animation world, from Aardman Animations to ...
Choose your own Resolution: SAM Animation update
Hard to believe it's almost August! Before the school year gets going again (yikes!) we'll be launching new versions of SAM Animation with the usual bug fixes, and one new feature that we're super excited about. This feature will allow for exporting videos to the resolution of the streaming camera ...
HUE is now on Vimeo!
Fancy a change from YouTube? We've recently uploaded all of our stop motion videos to our Vimeo channel, giving fans a choice of where they can watch. Please let us know which you prefer! John Lewis Christmas Advert 2012 - The Journey - animated from Hue Animation on Vimeo ...
Register your myCreate iPad app before August!
The summertime is always an opportunity for us to play 'catch-up' and we're doing just that in our development department! By the launch of the new 2013-14 school year we will have version 2.0 myCreate-iPad app out with an entirely new look and feel, with an option for a free ...
From the blogosphere: itslearning on how video enhances teaching
Today we'd like to draw attention to a slightly older article we came across from Norwegian pedagogy specialists itslearning. They've posted about how they use video from webcams and visualisers to open up new teaching techniques which would never have been possible in the past. What makes the itslearning blog post ...
