Xtranormal

Donna, @2donna, a Primary Consultant in e-learning from North Yorkshire, has just tweeted her Top 10 tools for learning list and become the 143rd learning professional to contribute her favourite tools.  You can see all the contributions here.

One of the tools that she mentions I hadn't heard of before, it's xtranormal and lets you make 3D movies for free.

"Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century."

xtranormal

Comments

[JRA]

This is a cool and very easy to use tool. Unfortunately, if you want to download your video for offline use it is (or was) cumbersome. When I did it, I needed to publish the video to YouTube, then download from YouTube, and then delete it from YouTube, as it wasn't content I wanted available to the general public.

But the ease of use is incredible. Of course you offset some level of flexibility for that ease of use.

The first professional project I completed with this tool, was a customer service training mini-elearning module. I used the Xtranormal characters for the exchange, rather than filming real people. Users seemed to respond well. But I suspect, like anything the over use of this or any tool... can be overkill.

[annehodg]

I'm afraid I just don't quite get why this app is so popular among so many people. It's amusing enough once, but those robot voices really get my blood presssure up. Maybe it's the bad experience of being subjected to them on the phone that makes them a synonym for bad customer service. There's an ad here in Germany that parodies that robotic quality - here‘s the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdcOqYMFYo

Does anyone else have that reaction, or is it just me?