In conjunction with the LearnLaunch conference in Boston this past Friday, we announced our new strategic partnership with Kaplan Early Learning Group. Although specific details of the investment remain undisclosed, the aim of this partnership is to better leverage each of our product lines and strengthen our market presence in ...

A teacher from the Buckeye Union School District reached out to us this week to share a fabulous story about a field trip she took her class on, inspired by iCreate's SAM Animation software. For any schools based in the Bay area, the Walt Disney Family Museum could be a ...

We always love hearing from our customers from around the world, and just recently we received an animation created by students at the United Nations International School of Hanoi, Vietnam. Students were inspired by the Impossible Hamster animation, which essentially exemplifies thinking about an important issue in a funny way ...

Today Brandon and I took a visit to a local classroom to observe kids creating as well as bounce ideas off a couple of teachers on our new product plans for 2013. Never am I disappointed in these visits as I always walk away with little morsels of understanding and ...

We love it when schools can better articulate the valuable learning implications around stop-motion animation in the K12 classroom than we can. We recently discovered a fabulous testimonial by a long-time customer in Denver, CO, Polaris at Ebert. We pulled out some key quotes by teachers from the video below, ...

This fall has been a bit crazy for us as we've implemented new activation methods for SAM Animation, in addition to backend re-scaffolding to accomodate new operating systems and hardware that seem to keep popping up! As many of our longtime customers know, SAM grew out of a research project ...

Just in time for making fun & goofy holiday stop-motion videos for your friends we've released a new version of myCreate! Yup, with this update you can import music from iTunes (who doesn't enjoy watching a movie with music?!) AND you can copy frames. We know that myCreate isn't quite ...

HUE Animation Studio is a proud sponsor of the National Science & Engineering Week (NSEW), which is a ten day celebration of the sciences and engineering taking place across the UK from 15–24 March 2013. Register here to have a chance of winning a HUE Animation Studio kit for your ...

When we first started iCreate - almost 2.5 years ago now, yikes! - we really prioritized running hands-on teacher workshops. Why? It was great exposure for the stop-motion concept into learning so we could identify what we needed to continue to work on to build out our business. Since then, ...

Our partner Singapore Science Center successfully launched a 2nd annual Scinemation campaign this past week with nearly 500 kids creating their movies to explain the inner-workings of "Marvelous Machines." Check out event footage and participating teams talking to their experiences... We're looking forward to seeing what the category is next ...

The Testdevil.de team have recently put our HUE camera through its paces and posted a detailed review and video in German for their readers. We loved seeing what they thought, and they even made some suggestions! Do any other German speakers have feedback about their HUE to share? ...

In education we often sling buzz words around -- STEM, STEAM, 21st century skills, inquiry-based, blended-learning -- the list goes on. This trend continues ... tossing out words that we read or hear among various fields, but often times we've never actually sat down to *really* understand what we're talking ...

Review by Sarah Cooper (Family Fun Guide) A short while ago I was in total awe of people who could animate; but then I got my hands on a product called ‘HUE Animation Studio’ and suddenly the mysterious world of animation was opened up to me. What I would have ...

Disney has come full circle with their latest release of Frankenweenie, a full-feature stop motion film that landed in theaters just this month. And while Tim Burton and his crew had very sophisticated equipment, lighting, software, props, studio – the works – for accomplishing such a task, we like to ...

I was thrilled when asked to be part of a local district's science and engineering K12 curriculum review this month, and there was one particular incident that stood out from our 3-day review, which entailed: Day 1 – reviewing the actual curriculum from K through 12. There were just under ...

What do you get when you have an iPad with a camera, a lively imagination, and a great story to tell with LEGO mini-figures? Our new iPad app myCreate of course! After several months of development and testing (thank you to our beta testers – spending time even in the ...

Services such as Ustream and Livestream have been making headlines for making it possible for anyone to broadcast live video straight to their audience, without any costly setup fees. Recently, YouTube has also taken an interest in free online broadcasting. However, although it's very easy to teach your own live ...

I remember 8 years ago when I first landed in Los Angeles fresh out of college, anxious to start my big time engineering job in big time LA at big time Disney. How unaware I was then to see big time creativity disguised in a small auto shop in East ...

Voilà un commentaire indépendant pour la webcam Hue sur le blog du Prof Geek avec un vidéo qui explique comment une webcam avec un pied flexible peut être utilisé dans l'enseignement. Se filmer en train d'écrire: pas si compliqué avec HUE HD! The independent Prof Geek website posted a French-language ...

Just back from a trip to the Bay Area meeting with a couple of companies that inherently trigger fond memories of childhood: Klutz of Scholastic and University Games. We’ve worked with Klutz for a couple of years now – partnering with them on the production of the Animation book to ...