Over the past year, I’ve been sent links to a number of online start-ups that allow consumers to create their own animated films using free web software. Every one of them has left me unimpressed.

Have a gripe to bring before the court of Internet opinion? The computer-animation outfit Xtranormal has made a business out of helping people... Behind Rise Of Xtranormal, A Hilarious DIY Deadpan ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

The General Services Administration has added the Xtranormal video-maker to Apps.gov list as the latest available application to federal Web managers. “If you can type, you can make movies,” is ...

Xtranormal, a free 3D animation creation and sharing tool, is a seriously addictive sandbox for crafting miniature dramas, comedies, or whatever you can tell your little actors to do. The clip editor ...

Yes, even cocktail geeks and mixologists have time to mess around with Xtranormal, the genius text-to-movie animation software. This brilliant one by the user “felttip” illustrates what can happen ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Animation website Xtranormal - whose cartoon-making tools have spawned viral videos of cuddly puppies debating such topics as quantitative easing and the iPhone in stilted monotones - ...

When my wife and I decided to team-teach this semester, we were mindful of several challenges: keeping the class from turning into a marital soap opera, modeling for students not only divergent ...

Animation website Xtranormal — whose cartoon-making tools have spawned viral videos of cuddly puppies debating such topics as quantitative easing and the iPhone in stilted monotones — is no longer ...

They're Xtranormal animations, created by feeding your dialogue into a website that animates them based on the author's choices of characters and animations. Now Chevy Volt owner and advocate Jeff ...