Side Hustle: Video Production & Content Creation: The Video Animation Platform Comparison guide

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Animaker
The reason why we’re ranking Animaker first is not just because of its cool animation characters and eye-pleasing color palettes, but because we consider it to be the all-in-one package at the best price!

Pros:
  • The best feature of Animaker, that differentiates it from the other players is its ‘Video Infographics’ theme. You can turn your data into a cool infographic video in minutes.
  • The new templates of Animaker are really helpful and attractive.
  • Animaker’s subscription plans are very pocket friendly, starting from just $12.
  • It also has a new in-built TTS software for providing voice overs in the videos called ‘Animaker Voice’.
Cons:
  • The multi-user feature is available only in the Enterprise Plan of Animaker.
  • Full HD quality is available from the Business Plan onwards.

Vyond:
Vyond is the newly revised name of GoAnimate. It is also a pretty good software if you’re looking to create professional looking cartoon videos. The only thing that’s holding it back is that it’s not as easy to use as Powtoon.

Pros:
  • Vyond has a very interesting collection of templates.
  • It has a unique feature of automatic character lip synchronization.
  • It lets you customize your character with a lot of scope for diversity within the same style of character.
Cons:
  • It is a bit too pricey.
  • You lack the option of editing audio.
  • The characters don’t look as attractive as the options offered by other players in the industry

VideoScribe:
VideoScribe is the flag bearer of Whiteboard animation in the DIY video-making industry. It is a quality software that you should definitely try your hands on!

Pros:
  • It supports unlimited no. of downloads, hosting and creation in the paid plan.
  • It has a large library of audio and visual elements including soundtracks.
  • It has a simple 5 step interface with a lot of good DIY features.
Cons:
  • The software is limited to only whiteboard style of videos.
  • It has a Free trial period of only 7 days.

Animatron:
Animatron is an easy-to-use tool. It also has a separate Lite mode, which is a simplified version that empowers those who have never had any animation experience before.

Pros:
  • The pre-animated characters that come with the software are fun to use.
  • There is a good variety of graphics that you can use.
  • Animatron has set up an active community in which people share their projects with each other and get valuable feedback.
Cons:
  • There is no email support for the free version
  • The designs, transitions and animations do not come with ample choices.

RawShorts:
RawShorts is a free platform for anyone who wants to make professional-looking videos for businesses. It is the only DIY video making tool in the market that has an AI engine. You can simple type in the script of your video to see it convert into one. Although, this is a step in the right direction, it looks like the AI feature isn’t completely ready yet.
Pros:
  • The final video output is of high quality.
  • You can easily export and share the videos.
Cons:
  • The storage capacity is only 1 GB.
  • Maximum no. of premium exports is limited to only 25.

Wideo:
Wideo as a tool can prove to be very helpful for SMBs, marketing professionals and digital agencies. It helps you produce videos quickly and easily with a lot of templates. It doesn’t even require a credit card to try its free version.

Pros:
  • It gives you the ability to control individual frames for detailed animation.
  • It comes with a variety of tutorials and how-to articles.
  • It is available in English, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese.
Cons:
  • The 1-minute limitation does not justify the basic package price of the software.
  • There are no free subscription plans available. The free trial period is only for 7 days.
  • The software is expensive as compared to its other competitors.

Visme
A tool still in a beta phase which allows creating presentations and infographics, including the possibility to insert videos. At the beginning of a project, we can choose different templates and, straightaway, customize the project with different elements.

Advantages
  • The interface is quite intuitive and easy to use: on the left side, we have all the elements we can insert, on the central part we see the content we’re creating and on the right side, the scene in which we’re working.
  • We can insert royalty-free pictures thanks to a customized Flickr search bar, as well as other multimedia files, text, icons, forms, etc.
  • The project can be public or private and it offers the possibility to share it, download it or embed it in websites.
Disadvantages
  • It allows to insert videos but it doesn’t allow to create them or download them.
  • The free plan is rather limited because we will be able to create a maximum of 3 projects.
With regard to the subscription plans, we have:
  • Basic Plan – For free, limited content. You can only have 3 projects and download it in JPG format, with watermark.
  • Standard Plan – 7 $/month, limited content. You can have up to 15 projects and downloads in JPG format, PNG and PDF.
  • Comprehensive plan – 16 $/month. It offers all the premium options available, among them, HTML5 export function.

Explee
It is a digital creation app based on the web that allows users to create dynamic presentations and animations. It has three main areas: scene edition, media board and a timeline to manage the creation of the product.

Advantages
  • It allows to upload content, pictures or use the ones that its extensive library offers.
  • Regarding the audio options, users can upload their own music and create audio through audio recording.
  • To use any materials, you only have to drag and drop into the scene.
  • The timeline is very easy to use and it has a preview button so that creators can see how the final product will look like.
Disadvantages
  • Most of the pictures that we can use from its library follow the same design pattern: monochromatic or too simplistic drawings.
  • The free version stores publicly the content created in Explee, and it offers no possibility of applying any privacy control.
Subscription plans change depending on whether it’s billed monthly or annually. This last option is the most economic one:
  • Basic – 7 $/month, free trial for 14 days. It allows users to create one-minute duration videos with a 480p resolution.
  • Professional – 25 $/month, with storage capacity up to 2GB and 720p videos.
  • Creative – 99 $/month, it allows selling the videos you create. Full HD definition and access to all the characteristics of the application.
  • Team – Multiple licenses subscription to be able to work in team simultaneously. Prices change according to the number of licenses you contract
Biteable
This application bases its functioning in the unlimited creation of individual videos. However, with the annual subscription, you can access the premium category, where you can obtain your videos without the watermark and in high definition.

Advantages
  • Professional quality of videos and animations.
  • An easy to use tool. In just a few minutes you can obtain very good results.
  • It works on the basis of predesigned templates that we can add as scenes.
Disadvantages
  • The functionality is rather limited. A fixed number of templates.
  • You can choose the color scheme, but you cannot adjust the clip, their fonts or the size of the fonts.
  • The time between scenes is adjusted automatically, this feature disables users to plan the total time of duration.
  • It has diverse aspects that subtract value to the customization of the video and its possibilities.
  • Videos are sent through a link that is sent to the email we used for our account.
Regarding the subscription plans we have:
  • Free – Unlimited creation of videos, with watermark.
  • Premium – Annual subscription of 99 $. High definition videos, without watermark.

Moovly
This software allows creating materials online such as videos, animations and presentations by using objects of its library and templates.
Advantages
  • This tool is quick and easy to use. We only need to choose a name and category for our video and select a template among a wide variety of visual styles to start editing. Moreover, it offers an interactive tutorial which makes easier and accelerates the creation process.
  • Once in the editor, we have available a media board on the left side from which we can drag and drop elements directly into the scene.
  • It allows uploading pictures, audio and video clips.
  • The properties of the objects can be modified in the menu located on the right side of the interface.
  • Thanks to a quite intuitive timeline we can modify the time parameters of each object and scene.
Disadvantages
  • Depending on the subscription we have active, we can access more or less content.
  • The free plan only allows us to export in a standard definition (480p.)
The subscription plans change depending on whether the bill is month-to-month or annual, being this last option the most economic one:

  • Free – You can create videos up to 10 minutes long.
  • Moovly Unlimited – $5/month or $55/year gets you unlimited access to the Moovly Studio editor, no limit on video length, ability to remove watermark & outro, 1GB of Personal Library storage and more.
  • Moovly Business – $300/year, it has all the characteristics of the previous plans, and also offers 5GB of Personal Library storage, priority access, rendering & support, and commercial rights.
Renderforest
Renderforest is an online video production platform that allows us to create presentations with pictures, promotional videos, simple animations or kinetic typography, among others.

Advantages
  • Simple and user-friendly tool. In a few minutes you have a simple product but of a good quality.
  • You can upload your own images.
  • Once in the editor, you choose a template, add the pictures you want, and the software makes the rest of the work.
Disadvantages
  • It doesn’t offer the possibility to incorporate characters and animate them.
  • Edition is rudimentary, it offers a determined space to put the picture and you don’t have the possibility to edit it in order to adjust the audiovisual product according to our needs.
  • The library of templates and elements is very limited.
The export costs are divided into the following 4 offers: Free, Amateur, Pro, Business:
  • Free – Unlimited access to all the categories. Possibility to share the audiovisual product through the platform with a SD360 quality, but it’s not allowed to download it.
  • Amateur – 7.99 $ per exportation of an SD360 quality, without watermark.
  • Pro – Exportation for 14.99 $ without watermark and an HD720 quality video.
  • Business – 29.99 $ per exportation of an HD1080 quality.
The subscription costs are divided into the following 4 offers: Free, Amateur, Pro, Business
  • Free – You cannot export in HD. You can only see and share via web. Watermark o the videos.
  • Amateur – 9.99 $/month if you sign up for one year, and 29.99 $/month. 3 HD720 exportations per week. Video download in HD. Watermark in web-quality videos. Collection of music with license. Unlicensed for distribution.
  • Pro – 19.99 $/month if you sign up for a year, and 49.99 $/month. 5 HD720 exportations per week. Watermark in web quality videos. Download HD videos. Collection of music with license. Unlicensed for distribution.
  • Business – 39.99 $/month if you sign up for one year, and 99.99 $ per month. 10 HD1080 exportations per week. Video download in HD Without watermark in web quality videos. Collection of music with license. With license for distribution.

Animaker
It is a platform in which we can create scenes, add characters and objects and animate them in the way that best meets your needs. The exportation options depend on the plan acquired. Animaker… bodes well!

Advantage
  • A simple and easy to use tool. In just a few minutes you obtain a simple product but of a good quality.
  • Great offer and diversity of characters, backgrounds, templates…
  • You can upload your own images.
  • You can mark keyframes in the timeline for each object.
  • More than one person at a time can work with it.
  • It offers tutorials that make easier and accelerate the creation process.
  • It offers customized packages for businesses.
Disadvantage
  • Not very intuitive interface.
  • Limited options to work comfortably in the timeline
Regarding the subscription plans, we have:
  • Free – You can create videos lasting two minutes or fewer. It has a limit of 5 exportations per day with watermark.
  • Personal – 9 $/month, if you sign up for a year, and 12 $/month. Videos can be up to 5 minutes in length. SD quality download.
  • Startup – 19 $/month if you sign up for a year, and 25 $/month. Videos may be up to 15 minutes in length. Download in SD & HD quality.
  • Business – 39 $/month if you sign up for a year, and 49 $/month. Videos may be up to 30 minutes in length. Download in SD, HD and Full HD quality. Only in this subscription model you’ll have commercial licenses and exclusive material.


GoAnimate
And finally… our star platform: GoAnimate! . You can create animations online through an intuitive user experience. It has a library with a great variety of objects, characters, backgrounds, text boxes, scenes with simple animations and editable. Moreover, users can also upload their own files as pictures, videos and audios. Users can download their videos in the following formats: mp4, gif and video presentation. As an alternative, the audio can be established as a voice-over.

Advantage
  • Simple tool, easy to use.
  • Intuitive web
  • It allows you to create folders and sort the videos as you wish.
  • Scenes templates, ordered by thematic blocks.
  • A great amount of characters, backgrounds and templates.
  • You can upload your own images.
  • It gives the option of seeing a preview of the video before the export.
  • It offers different ways to export. 1080p Full HD, 720p and 360p.
  • You can link it to a different account so that it’s published directly (for example, Vimeo or YouTube).
Disadvantages

  • A timeline not very practical.
  • You have to duplicate scenes to avoid an overload because of the effects and a bad render in consequence.
  • Some typographies don’t allow the use of tittles, so are obliged to use Arial to write, for example, in Spanish.
Regarding the subscription plans, we have:

  • Go Publish – 39 $/ month or 299 $ if you sign up for a year. It only allows access to one person at a time. 720p download, watermark included. Access to 40 music clips.
  • Go Premium 79 $/month or 599 $ if you sign up for a year. It only allows access to one person at a time. 1080p download, without watermark. Access to 70 music clips.
  • Go Team 159 $/month or 999 $ if you sign up for a year. It allows access to more than one person at a time. 1080p download, without watermark Access to more than 100 music clips, loops and tags. It provides you with the option of importing fonts and share your own library.
 
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Toonly Vs Doodly
If you are looking for creating cartoon explainer videos, Toonly is the best bet. However, if you want a whiteboard animation video, you should opt for Doodly. Both the software do their job well.

Both Toonly and Doodly help you in saving a lot of money. Getting the animated videos made from a digital company would cost you a bomb. Using the software and developing the videos all by yourself saves time, money and effort.

You don’t require any animation or coding skill to use both the software. Toonly and Doodly are quite user-friendly and you can create videos using the drag-and-drop method.

Toonly has more than 200 characters, 20 background scenes and 20 audio music tracks to offer. On similar lines, Doodly has 200+ custom poses, 20 scenes, and 200 props for you to choose from.

You can even upload your own images and use them in the videos.

One striking difference between the two software is that while Toonly can be used without the need for an active internet connection, it is not so with Doodly. You need the internet to be able to use the latter.

What Toonly exactly is?
Toonly is an animation video making software that takes only a few minutes to create animated explainer videos. It is regarded as the best software for making animated explainer videos.

Toonly — Create Your Own Cartoon Explainer Video In Minutes
Features and Advantages of Toonly you need to know about:

1. Toonly is very easy to use: The interface is user-friendly and allows almost anyone to make animated videos of professional quality. You need not have any prior animation knowledge to create videos using it.

2. There are more than 200 characters in Toonly, 20 background scenes and 20 audio music tracks. However, your own voice can be recorded and used as a voice over or you can upload a music track of your choice from your PC.

3. The best part of using Toonly is that once you purchase it, it can be used on a number of computers. You will also get updated regularly.

4. Talking about its compatibility, it can be used for Mac and PC.

5. Videos can be exported in different resolutions such as 480p, 720p, etc.

6. Toonly is a software that can be used offline. This is a major pro as you don’t need an active internet connection to use the software.

7. Being a drag and drop software, you can get your animated videos made really fast with Toonly.

8. To learn how to use the software properly, you simply need to watch the step by step tutorial videos available with Toonly.

9. In case there are issues while using the software, you can contact the customer support team and get things fixed. They are quite prompt which is great for users!

So, that was about cartoon explainer videos and Toonly. Know more!

Let’s move on to whiteboard animation videos that are much in demand for product demos, educational presentations and for explainer videos as well.

Whiteboard Animation — What does it actually mean?
You must have heard of the term ‘whiteboard animation’. It is basically a video on a digital canvas that makes drawings and text move around. It is used to tell a story with the help of clear visuals with an element of fun.

While actually time-lapse or slow motion is used in the animation process, the advent of technology has made the task easier. You will not have to actually draw out stuff anymore.

It can be taken care of by whiteboard animation software and one such software is Doodly.

Doodly — what is it?
As mentioned just now, Doodly is a whiteboard animation software. You can create a video by the simple drag-and-drop method. The desktop software is user-friendly and can be customized based on the requirements of the user.

The marketing world is reaping the benefits of this software. Using Doodly, marketers are making creative and eye-catching videos with lesser effort and resources.

What would have cost a thousand dollars and several weeks of work is created using Doodly at a fraction of the cost and in a few minutes.

Doodly — Doodle Video Creation Software
Features of Doodly

  1. The software lets you make doodle style videos with the point-and-click and drag-and-drop videos.
2. There are 200+ custom poses, 20 scenes, and 200 props to choose from. Moreover, you get to upload images of your own.

3. There is no limit as far as the number of videos you create using the software which is a huge advantage.

4. Choosing a whiteboard, blackboard or green board is up to you.

5. You can upload sounds, images, and fonts as per your choice and get videos exported in different formats in a matter of minutes.

6. The images are drawn in a very realistic manner.

What you need to keep in mind is that Doodly is meant for your desktop and it requires an active internet connection.

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