The HUE Book of Animation

The book is bursting with ideas on how to bring everyday objects to life thanks to the magic of stop motion and time-lapse photography.

It includes 64 full-color pages featuring step-by-step instructions for recreating 20 hilarious stop motion movies - and ideas for even more.

Sample videos for each of the projects in the book are available to watch on the HUE YouTube channel.

Share your creations with #HUEanimation and #HUEcameras on social media.

Downloadable activities

The bundled software license includes free downloadable resources and gizmos such as storyboard templates, backgrounds, a phenakistoscope, cut-out puppets and sound effects to bring your movies to life!

Animate anything: you can even have a conversation with a coconut!

Activity guides

Make lessons fun with project-based learning at home and in class, courtesy of HUE’s educational activity guides. They have been designed to help students create time-lapse videos for school science fairs or end-of-term film festivals.

The guides include tips and techniques for creating a stop motion project from script to screen, making homework fun and encouraging learning through play. Animate the curriculum while developing 21st century skills such as creativity, collaboration, and digital literacy.

STEAM

HUE Animation Studio is a STEM.org approved educational toy which is popular with children but also with parents and teachers.

Use the kit in the classroom to engage students in science, technology, engineering, art and math lessons. You’ll appreciate the simplicity and good choice of editing features. Help them to develop creative and collaborative skills while writing scripts, telling stories, making props and scenery, setting up lighting and recording sound effects.

Featured in Newsweek’s highly prized ‘Best in STEM’ list, the kit is the perfect gift for budding animators offering hours of movie-making fun.

Special Educational Needs (SEN/SEND)

Children develop a range of multi-sensory skills when they’re creating stop motion videos. The HUE Animation software has a simple interface with large, intuitive icons, designed by teachers, so that children can animate and edit movies independently.

For those that cannot process data graphically there are text labels on the key functional buttons. Keyboard shortcuts are also available for capturing images to help students who cannot use a mouse. It's also a time saver for abled students so everyone benefits.

Each child can take on a role that suits their abilities such as model maker, storyteller or director.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

Creating animated movies offers children a wide range of activities that support the development of social and emotional skills, including responsible decision making, self-management and social awareness.

Children will learn how to collaborate, communicate and cooperate with others during the movie-making process, while writing stories encourages them to put themselves in another person's shoes and gain appreciation for the thoughts and feelings of others.

Animation can help children experiencing difficulty with communication to express themselves pictorially and connect with the world around them.

Manual focus camera with flexible neck

The camera has a unique design that is flexible, portable and built to last. Its posable neck makes it the perfect companion for animating. There is no need for a tripod or tablet stand.

Capture the ideal shot with the camera’s manual focusing ring. Simply turn the silver ring around the camera’s lens until the image is crystal clear. It is perfect for animating extreme close-ups and dramatic wide shots.

The manual focus can be used to magnify moving or handheld objects without the continuous automatic adjustments which occur with an autofocus lens, and the intuitive focusing ring works with fingers of all sizes.

Integrated microphone and extra audio features

The built-in microphone features noise reduction/cancellation, a sampling rate of 8000/16000 Hz and accuracy of <5 PPM.

Record songs and voice overs directly into your movie projects. Bring your animations alive by importing HUE’s hilarious selection of included sound effects such as screams, explosions and spaceships. Create the perfect soundtrack by importing and editing your own music.

Multi-purpose

The HUE HD camera in the kit is also a fully-featured USB webcam on its own. It can be used as a basic USB camera/microphone for console and PC gaming, making YouTube videos, logging in to remote classes or home tutoring.

It works with any application that recognizes a USB camera and can be used as a webcam, visualizer, or document camera. Stream or record videos using Windows 11 and Chrome “Camera” apps, QuickTime or Photo Booth on macOS, Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, Skype, Seesaw, Loom, FaceTime, Discord, Twitch, Scratch, Facebook Live and YouTube Live, and many more.

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 on YouTube

System requirements

• HUE Animation requires a PC with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 or XP and graphics drivers with OpenGL 2.0 support
• Stop Motion Studio requires Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11+
• 512MB RAM (1GB recommended)

Note: The software includes perpetual single-user licences for HUE Animation and Stop Motion Studio.

Package contents

• HUE HD USB camera, camera base, USB to mini-USB cable
• The HUE Book of Animation
• CD including HUE Animation software (perpetual single-user license) and videos, templates, backdrops and cut-outs to print
• Now supports macOS as well as Windows: register your HUE Animation license to upgrade to the desktop version of Stop Motion Studio.

Note: CD content also available as downloads