PuppetMaster 4+

Animate. Literally. Anything‪.‬

Shmonster LLC

    • 3.1 • 7 Ratings
    • £2.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Animate anything! Now with customizable hats for your puppets.

PuppetMaster: Animate. Literally. Anything.

This animation app lets you instantly bring to life anything you want, just by acting things out in front of the camera or touching the screen. Your voice is recorded as well. The result is your own animated video you can save and share!

The app even has fun guided activities that kids can follow along and do, making arts and crafts and then animating them.

Features include:
* Real-time animation - you animate in the moment, while you talk, and your puppet comes to life in front of your eyes.
* Motion capture - intuitively animate characters just by moving your body in front of the device camera. Use front or back camera. (Best results are usually with back camera of newer devices.)
* Multi-touch - animate by touching and dragging the puppet and its body parts on the screen, even using both hands or working together with a friend.
* Animate one or two puppets - you can have one puppet on its own, or two puppets where both can move and you can control which one is talking at any time.
* Create your own puppets - bring to life your physical artwork, your favorite toys, a person or animal, random stuff like your snacks arranged as a character, really anything you like!
* Create your own backgrounds - use a painting you made, a diorama, some interesting place, or anything else you want as your background.
* Choose from our designs - the app comes with a bunch of cool puppets and backgrounds already in it, in a cute hand drawn style that you can mix and match with your own creations.
* Export and share videos with audio - save a video of your puppet show, complete with the audio of your performance, locally and also to social media, cloud storage, or any other typical sharing method.
* In-app streaming tutorials and activities - guiding kids through using the app for visual storytelling, and teaching them how to create various physical art pieces and animate them.

On our website and social media you'll find more project ideas, educational support, and lesson plans for teachers and homeschooling parents.

PuppetMaster was named one of the Best Apps for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians. It's a great open ended creative activity for children, supports ISTE standards, and is a great way to integrate the arts into any academic subject for a more engaging class. (Teachers say they prefer it to stop motion animation because it's so much easier and faster.)

See our privacy and terms here: https://www.shmonster.com/privacyterms/

What’s New

Version 4.0

Added the ability to add hats to puppets!

Ratings and Reviews

3.1 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Daph2theb ,

3 stars due to an error using the motion capture on the selfie cam

Love this app
Its so simple to use and fully love how easy it all is to set up but its a massive shame the selfie camera motion tracking doesnt work on iPad Pro …it just resets the app and you lose any work you’ve created up to that point …..hopefully they find a fix for this ……as using the back camera is ok but you can’t see what your puppet is doing or looks like which isn’t brilliant …

𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓮𝔃 ,

Hard to make good puppets, Confusing words

Hello, I think this app is really good.. although its hard to make decent puppets, If the image is transparent could you make it that the background is invisible rather than a dull blue background, this makes it look messy, and for the instructions instead of theighs could you call them top leg, and for calfs bottom leg, I have failed making the puppets many times because I don't know what the thiegh or calves are. Thanks

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you so much for your input. That is a fantastic suggestion! We will try to add proper support for transparent images ASAP. Please feel free to email me if you want to be notified as soon as that's available - info@shmonster.com - it sounds like you're an advanced user, probably an artist or illustrator, who knows how to work with transparency and I'd love to see what somebody like you makes. Also I'm sorry the words were not clear, we didn't realize that would be confusing! Good to know, I'll look into improving this. Meanwhile, if it helps, there's a little puppet hint on the left side of the screen, where the desired body part is flashing - to show the user. Thanks again, and I hope to see your art and animation soon!

Iamunimpressed ,

Slow During Recording and Playback

I downloaded the app today to keep my 6 year old entertained but unfortunately it doesn’t function well. In theory this app is great fun for kids but in. Practice it is slow during recording and playback during both hand animation and motion tracking. I am using iPad Air 5 so I don’t believe this is an issue with the hardware suitability.

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