The cartoon is not only a type of entertainment, but an artistic and creative skill that can be used for advertising purposes or to create professional presentations.
With the new technologies made available by some online tools, it is possible for everyone to create animated cartoons and videos in a free and simple way, leaving the user complete freedom of realization.
You can therefore create cartoons to have fun, to create stories to share or even to advertise a service or product.
In this article we therefore discover the most powerful and also simplest web applications, in some cases suitable even for children, with which you can create an animated video, or rather, a real cartoon using intuitive, often powerful and creative interfaces.
Almost all the following sites have a free plan that allows you to use the creation tools without paying anything.
Usually the main limitation of free accounts is that it is not possible to export or save videos in order to share them.
READ ALSO: Sites to create avatars and manga faces
1) Animatron is a commercial suite for creating animated videos, which can be tried for free even if with many limitations.
The site requires free registration and contains many themes and templates ready to use for the animated video.
Mostly it only takes time to get used to the timeline and timing in which objects move and appear, and even complex animations can be created.
Each vector object can be resized and animated without becoming grainy and you can also draw freehand and instantly animate the object.
2) Prezi, which I mentioned in the article on sites for creating presentations with automatic zoom, is one of the best applications for creating commercial, marketing and advertising videos.
It can therefore be used for free to test, without limit in the number of presentations to be made, using its powerful tools, dynamic and engaging cartoons, with ready-to-use models to kick off the project.
3) Animiz is the software to use to create cartoons and stories while having fun.
Although it requires downloading a program on Windows and Mac PCs, the application is cloud-type, providing some online space in which to save projects.
Animiz is a sophisticated 3D animation software with many vivid special effects, multi-track timeline and publication in 6 different formats, including mp4, .mov, .wmv, .avi, .flv, .mkv.
With hundreds of animated scenes to choose from, customizable with colors, logos, sounds.
Aninmiz can be used for commercial purposes, for educational purposes or just for having fun in spare time.
4) RenderForest is an online video presentation and comic creation tool that offers a wide variety of free templates ready for use.
Allows you to create a presentation of cartoons and videos with some amazing effects such as rendering and motion design.
This software has a very easy to use interface, also good for those who have less patience and time to learn.
The free account can be used to create videos up to 3 minutes long.
5) PowToon is an excellent site to create videos and cartoons online in a simple and free way.
You can choose many characters and create a real story composed of various scenes, inserting the settings, objects, comics, audio content, photos.
You can zoom in, insert background music, decide the duration of the cartoon.
The free account can be used for free to have fun creating short clips or paying subscriptions if there are more professional and marketing needs.
The site offers ready-made multipurpose models to create high-quality cartoons online in no time.
6) DVolver is a lighter site than the previous ones, the simplest of all and therefore also suitable for children, to create small funny animations made with funny characters, with dialogues, background music and much more with simplified functions.
7) Mixamo by Adoobe is a 3D animation studio that requires no special skills and allows you to create realistic characters on the move, deciding all the animations.
The animations look professional, with automatic 3D, unique character designs and unlimited possibilities in high definition.
8) Pixton is a site for making very beautiful cartoons, with graphics worthy of the best TV cartoons, suitable for creating stories, for students, educators, marketing professionals and also for those who just want to enjoy themselves.
9) Biteable is an animated video creation site for marketing and social purposes, to create those presentations that are often seen in advertisements or in the presentation of projects.
With the free account you can try all the tools and have fun.
10) Wideo has a simple editor with many pre-loaded objects, shapes, backgrounds and sounds to be used to create an animated video.
Very simple to use, after registering for free you can immediately create the first video by choosing the object to animate among those proposed.
It is chosen its starting position, that of arrival to see the chosen subject move.
Through a timeline, you can organize the various movements until you create the cartoon.
However, the site has taken on a professional nature and does not include free plans
11) DoInk is an application for iPhone and iPad to create fun online cartoons.
In this easy interface, you have to draw and create figures and shapes which can then be animated.
All cartoons drawn and animated can be saved on your online account and shared via the web with the html codes provided to be copied and pasted.
12) Scratch is a cardboard maker based on block programming, in a really easy way.
You can draw the character or use a ready-made one, choose the scenario and use the various preset movements by choosing them from the list of scripts.
The app is also a community where you can publish your cartoons online for others to see.
13) Google Toontastic is instead an app for Android and iPhone, very simple to use, to create cartoons and animated videos, also suitable for children, where characters can also interact with their voice.
In other articles we then saw:
- Virtual worlds and online games such as Second Life.
- Best free 2D and 3D animation programs
- Apply the cartoon effect on a photo.
With the new technologies made available by some online tools, it is possible for everyone to create animated cartoons and videos in a free and simple way, leaving the user complete freedom of realization.
You can therefore create cartoons to have fun, to create stories to share or even to advertise a service or product.
In this article we therefore discover the most powerful and also simplest web applications, in some cases suitable even for children, with which you can create an animated video, or rather, a real cartoon using intuitive, often powerful and creative interfaces.
Almost all the following sites have a free plan that allows you to use the creation tools without paying anything.
Usually the main limitation of free accounts is that it is not possible to export or save videos in order to share them.
READ ALSO: Sites to create avatars and manga faces
1) Animatron is a commercial suite for creating animated videos, which can be tried for free even if with many limitations.
The site requires free registration and contains many themes and templates ready to use for the animated video.
Mostly it only takes time to get used to the timeline and timing in which objects move and appear, and even complex animations can be created.
Each vector object can be resized and animated without becoming grainy and you can also draw freehand and instantly animate the object.
2) Prezi, which I mentioned in the article on sites for creating presentations with automatic zoom, is one of the best applications for creating commercial, marketing and advertising videos.
It can therefore be used for free to test, without limit in the number of presentations to be made, using its powerful tools, dynamic and engaging cartoons, with ready-to-use models to kick off the project.
3) Animiz is the software to use to create cartoons and stories while having fun.
Although it requires downloading a program on Windows and Mac PCs, the application is cloud-type, providing some online space in which to save projects.
Animiz is a sophisticated 3D animation software with many vivid special effects, multi-track timeline and publication in 6 different formats, including mp4, .mov, .wmv, .avi, .flv, .mkv.
With hundreds of animated scenes to choose from, customizable with colors, logos, sounds.
Aninmiz can be used for commercial purposes, for educational purposes or just for having fun in spare time.
4) RenderForest is an online video presentation and comic creation tool that offers a wide variety of free templates ready for use.
Allows you to create a presentation of cartoons and videos with some amazing effects such as rendering and motion design.
This software has a very easy to use interface, also good for those who have less patience and time to learn.
The free account can be used to create videos up to 3 minutes long.
5) PowToon is an excellent site to create videos and cartoons online in a simple and free way.
You can choose many characters and create a real story composed of various scenes, inserting the settings, objects, comics, audio content, photos.
You can zoom in, insert background music, decide the duration of the cartoon.
The free account can be used for free to have fun creating short clips or paying subscriptions if there are more professional and marketing needs.
The site offers ready-made multipurpose models to create high-quality cartoons online in no time.
6) DVolver is a lighter site than the previous ones, the simplest of all and therefore also suitable for children, to create small funny animations made with funny characters, with dialogues, background music and much more with simplified functions.
7) Mixamo by Adoobe is a 3D animation studio that requires no special skills and allows you to create realistic characters on the move, deciding all the animations.
The animations look professional, with automatic 3D, unique character designs and unlimited possibilities in high definition.
8) Pixton is a site for making very beautiful cartoons, with graphics worthy of the best TV cartoons, suitable for creating stories, for students, educators, marketing professionals and also for those who just want to enjoy themselves.
9) Biteable is an animated video creation site for marketing and social purposes, to create those presentations that are often seen in advertisements or in the presentation of projects.
With the free account you can try all the tools and have fun.
10) Wideo has a simple editor with many pre-loaded objects, shapes, backgrounds and sounds to be used to create an animated video.
Very simple to use, after registering for free you can immediately create the first video by choosing the object to animate among those proposed.
It is chosen its starting position, that of arrival to see the chosen subject move.
Through a timeline, you can organize the various movements until you create the cartoon.
However, the site has taken on a professional nature and does not include free plans
11) DoInk is an application for iPhone and iPad to create fun online cartoons.
In this easy interface, you have to draw and create figures and shapes which can then be animated.
All cartoons drawn and animated can be saved on your online account and shared via the web with the html codes provided to be copied and pasted.
12) Scratch is a cardboard maker based on block programming, in a really easy way.
You can draw the character or use a ready-made one, choose the scenario and use the various preset movements by choosing them from the list of scripts.
The app is also a community where you can publish your cartoons online for others to see.
13) Google Toontastic is instead an app for Android and iPhone, very simple to use, to create cartoons and animated videos, also suitable for children, where characters can also interact with their voice.
In other articles we then saw:
- Virtual worlds and online games such as Second Life.
- Best free 2D and 3D animation programs
- Apply the cartoon effect on a photo.
