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 creators 7+
If your kids love storytelling and creative projects, they will be thrilled to receive HUE Animation Toolbox. This bumper box of movie magic is bursting with everything budding animators need to create stop motion movies from script to screen.
They can bring their ideas to life by crafting characters to star in stories straight from their own imagination, or create new adventures for favourite stop motion characters like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep or Pingu.
This new, limited-edition animation kit will be available to order soon from the HUE Shop. Make sure you’re the first to know! Visit: huehd.com/shop/toolbox to add the kit to your wish list and get stock alerts straight to your inbox.
What’s in the box?
A treasure chest of filmmaking fun!
This all-in-one kit includes an award-winning camera, software, book, tools and materials so creators can dive in and start animating right away.
Award-winning HUE HD camera
This Plug & Play, USB camera with a manual focus lens and flexible neck makes movie-making a breeze. The HUE HD camera’s posable neck means you don’t need a tripod. You can frame tricky close-ups and dramatic angles with just a twist and a tilt. Packaged in a hard shell zipper case with a storage pocket for accessories to protect your investment and stay organised.
Covered by a 3-year manufacturer’s warranty, with access to full customer support.
Easy-to-use animation software
Stop Motion Studio for HUE is fully-featured desktop animation software that provides all the tools needed to create simple gif animations or dynamic movies with titles, end credits, green screen sequences and special effects. Complete beginners can start animating within minutes, while more experienced users can explore advanced features at their own pace.
System requirements: Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11+.
The HUE Book of Animation
This 64-page full-colour guide shows how to create 20 hilarious stop motion videos with claymation, pixilation and more. Packed with simple diagrams, tips and tricks, it helps budding filmmakers spark imagination and master animation from first frame to the closing credits.
Stop motion tools and materials
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.
There’s also a mobile phone tripod and link to a free mobile app so that you can keep animating on the go!
Animation activity sheets
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.
Your animation adventure starts here 🎬
Create like a pro 🪄
Explore the tutorials 🤓
Browse through the Stop Motion Studio for HUE software tutorials to find out how to: make your first movie, use the ‘Chroma Key’ (Green Screen) feature, capture a time-lapse, add titles, audio and export your animations.
Find some animation inspiration 💡
Watch the videos 🍿
Kick-start your creativity by exploring our HUE Book of Animation video playlist. 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.
Learn how the movie magic is made ✨
Read 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. 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.
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.
Set the stage 🎭
The colourful gift box features hand-sculpted clay dinosaurs and paper-craft characters on the outside. Open it up and it transforms into a cosmic animation stage featuring ready-to-film claymation space scenes. Blast off to Mars, infinity and beyond to recreate scenes from favourite sci-fi films or invent your own extraterrestrial escapades.
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.
Ready-made animation activities ⚡️
Ever wished that your pets or your toys could talk? Well, now they can just like these cheeky fruits pretending to be famous people! Pop-out the cardboard characters and battle aliens in an intergalactic adventure! All the instructions can be found in the HUE Book of Animation. Stand in front of a mirror, spin the ratoscope and look through the little slits at the reflection. The rats will start crawling. Eeeew! Make an exciting, full-throttle motor chase with these DIY cardboard props, cool camera angles and the magic of stop motion animation.
Sample videos for each of the projects in the HUE Book of Animation are available to watch on the HUE YouTube channel. Share your creations with #HUEanimation and #HUEcameras on social media.
Lights! 💡 Camera! 📸 LEARNING! 🧠
21st century skills ✨
Communication and self-expression 😃
Animation gives children the freedom to bend the rules of reality, test ideas and express themselves in a fun and liberating way. Recording voice-overs challenges children to speak aloud and experiment with tone, emotion and humour while performing different characters. 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.
Problem-solving & fine motor skills 👌
Stop motion builds patience and resilience. Kids learn to troubleshoot creative challenges like making spaceships fly or animating underwater scenes. Sculpting clay and moving small props frame by frame strengthens fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and focus 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 line up their characters, ensuring that with perseverance anyone can create smooth animations.
Active screen time & 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.
Creativity & 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. Hands-on and imagination-heavy, HUE Animation Toolbox encourages learning by doing, experimenting and having fun.
Storytelling & literacy skills ✏️
Scriptwriting and storyboarding promotes storytelling, literacy and sequencing skills while outlining key elements of the 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.
Collaboration & teamwork 🤝
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.
The gift that keeps on giving!
More ways to animate
Create anywhere! Make movies at home with the fully-featured desktop software or animate on the go with the mobile app and tripod.
Instant inspiration
Reusable props, example videos and activity ideas mean you can start making movies from the moment you open the box.
Flexible camera design
The HUE HD Camera bends into any position and has a manual focus for dynamic shots, no tripod required.
A box that’s part of the fun
The colourful storage box doubles as a multi-sided animation stage featuring ready-to-film claymation space scenes.
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).
Reviews
Parents loved that it combines screen time with hands-on creativity
The HUE Animation Toolbox is a fun creative kit that inspires children to bring their imaginations to life through stop-motion animation. The set is packed with everything young filmmakers need to start animating right away including clay, wooden tools, a giant storyboard and a child-friendly quickstart guide. Children can follow step by step projects in the included book and there are downloadable templates and tutorial videos, or they can experiment freely with their own ideas.
Our testers were thrilled each time they produced a new video and couldn’t wait to share their creations. While younger children sometimes needed guidance at first, they quickly gained confidence and independence with practice. The set worked well for both solo play and group collaboration, as children took turns making individual films but also brainstormed ideas together.
Parents loved that it combines screen time with hands-on creativity, teaching children patience, storytelling and technical film making skills in an accessible way. Compact and easy to set up, it keeps children coming back for more and offers endless opportunities to get increasingly inventive. A really engaging introduction to the world of animation!
What our testers said:
“Look, there’s so many backgrounds. Can we do the space one?” Boy, aged 7 year old
“Oh cool, there’s sound effects!” Boy, aged 9
A super exciting stop-animation kit in a suitcase!
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! The USB camera in the kit is great in its own right.
It has a sturdy construction which makes it durable and value for money within the classroom. The strong, flexible neck makes it adaptable when used by pupils, as does the option of using it with the stable base and included USB cable, meaning pupils can use it hands-free or can easily create tracking shots. To read more…Teach_Primary_HAT_Review
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.