You start off by selecting a theme. For example I selected Star Wars. Then, in the tool panel on the left you can change your scene, insert characters, objects and speech bubbles. Everything you insert into the scene can be resized by simply dragging its corner. This allows you to add depth to your cartoons by making far away objects small and close objects big unlike other 2D animators.

The menu bar shown the left of the scene interface where you create the cartoon has all of the objects, effects, speech bubbles and scenes you could ever want. The effect such as ‘Zoom’ and a big theatre curtain opening are good and add that extra something to the cartoon.

By clicking on an object or person you bring up a menu which allows you to choose what they are doing or where they are going. As you can see in my Star Wars party above I have people sitting, standing, dancing and fighting. There are over a dozen options for all objects such as to walk, hit, and sleep. By compiling all of these together you can make a short cartoon.

The service is mostly free however you do have to pay some premium services by using GoBucks which can be bought using PayPal. These premium services are minimal such as inserting a special character into a scene – you can easily do without them.

Go animate is a great animation tool that’s quite addicting mainly because you can actually make good quality cartoons that wouldn’t look out of place on a home-grown amateur animation series; not just small 2D clips.

Features:

• Simple online cartoon animation tool.
• Provides popular cartoon themes and characters.
• Ability to Save your cartoon and share it with the community.
• Create your own characters.
• Easily add sound effects.
• Vast Library of objects, effects, people and scenes.
• Check out  animations created by other users.
• Similar tool: Xtranormal and AniBOOM.

Check out GoAnimate @ www.GoAnimate.com (by DeanSherwin)

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• AniBOOM: Create and Share Animations Online
• WittyGraphy: Online Caricature Community
• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime

Features:

• Collection of popular animated TV shows to watch online.
• Available shows: American Dad, Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons and Undergrads.
• Watch as many shows as you like.
• Free, no sign up required.
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Check out ABCwatching @ www.abcwatching.com

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• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime
• TV-Links
• QuickSilverScreen: Stream Movies, TV Channels, & TV Shows
• Peekvid
• CrawlAnime: Watch Full Anime Movies Online for Free

Users can search for videos, browse videos by genre or popularity, rate videos, and share them on social networks. Moreover, registered members can add comments to existing videos and also suggest new videos. Overall 3DMiniClips is nice resource for these who likes 3D animations.

Features:

• Collection of cool 3D video animations aggregated from around the web.
• Currently lists around 140 videos (more videos being added).
• Search and browse by genres or popularity.
• Users can suggest and rate videos (registration needed).

Check out 3dMiniClips @ www.3dminiclips.com

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• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children
• Yubby: Share Favorite Online Videos As A Video Channel
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• YouTube Auto Buffer: Makes YouTube Better [Greasemonkey]
• YouFlow: Browse YouTube & Watch Multiple Videos At Once

If you register on the site you will be able to upload, share and sell your own caricatures.

Features:

• Caricature community online.
• View user submitted caricatures of celebrities, politicians, movie actors… etc.
• View most voted, most viewed and most discussed caricatures.
• Register to share and sell your own caricatures.
• Discuss caricatures with other members by commenting.
• Caricatures are free to view, and can be shared by forwarding a link or embedding.
• Purchase full rights to a caricature.

Check out WittyGraphy @ www.wittygraphy.com

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• ToonDoo : Online Comic Strips Creator
• SwarmSketch: Collective Sketching
• Queeky: Draw and Share Drawings Online
• MakeBeliefsComix: Online Comic Strip Generator
• Doink: Create Fun Animated Drawings Online

The site lets you create drawing from scratch or re-use the works of other site members. Completed drawings can be shared by forwarding a URL or posting on Facebook, Myspace,and embedding on your webpages.

Animation editor

Additionally to animation drawing you can also browse animations of other users , rate them and leave comments.

To see Doink in action watch demo video below:

Features:

• Easily create art drawings, custom animations online with intuitive animation editor.
• Create your animations from scratch or re-use works of other users.
• Share your works on MySpace, Facebook and embed them on your webpages.
• Browse most popular drawings and clips by other users, collaborate with members, share props and comment on their works.
• Search animations.
• Free, sign up to get started.
• Similar websites: AniBOOM and Xtranormal.

Check out Doink @ www.doink.com (via Webware)

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• Viscosity : Modearn Art Generator
• StoryTop: Story Board App for Making Cartoonish Stories
• RateMyDrawings

First drag background, characters and other objects from the menu onto the page. Next add your text and save it. To share the story grab the URL and forward to anyone you want.

Features:

• Online story board for creating multi-page stories.
• Add text, backgrounds, people and other objects by dragging them from the left column.
• Create unlimited number of stories.
• Save/delete stories in your account.
• Share stories with others by forwarding the URL.

Check out StoryTop @ www.storytop.com

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• StoryBird: Create, Share & Read Storybooks Online
• GoAnimate: Cool Cartoon Animator Online
• Doink: Create Fun Animated Drawings Online
• AniBOOM: Create and Share Animations Online
• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children

Creating strips could not be made easier, all you have to do is grab the items you want to use from the menu and drop on to the frame. You can add unique human characters, beings, objects, shapes and speech bubbles. Scale them, rotate, add colors, add/remove frames and more. Once your comic strip is ready you can print it out or share it with others by publishing it online.

The site doesn’t require users to regsiter, however registered users get their own online gallery, some extra strip creating options and more characters to choose from.

You can also browse and view strips created by other users, rate them and leave comments.

Features:

• Free comic strip creator.
• Create as many strips as you like.
• Intuitive strip creator with drag & drop interface.
• Add unique human characters, beings, objects, shapes and speech bubbles with text.
• Print your strips or publish online.
• Share your strip by forwarding a link or embedding.
• No registration necessary, however if registered you will get extra features.
• Browse strips of other users rate and leave comments.
• Similar sites: Dilbert, Pixton, Comiqs and  MakeBeliefsComix.

Check out StripGenerator @ www.stripgenerator.com

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• Dilbert : Create your Dilbert Comic Strips
• WittyGraphy: Online Caricature Community

You can customize number of panels, add characters, emotions, text notes, speech and thought bubbles and adjust the background to your liking. When you’re done with your comic strip, you can print it out or share it with friends via email.

Features:

• Online comic strip creator.
• Easy to use, simple interface.
• Add characters, emotions, text, speech bubbles, customize background.
• Point and click interface.
• Similar websites: BitStrips, Dilbert , Pixton, Comiqs and ToonDoo.

Go to MakeBeliefsComix @ makebeliefscomix.com (by Kinshuk Sunil from kinshuksunil.com)

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Keep in mind, while you’re provided with a user-friendly face composer tool here you will actually need to work on it for quite a bit to make the cartoon version of yourself. Apart from that, users can browse faces created by other users, rate them and print out the ones they like.

Features:

• Create cartoon faces of yourself or any celebrity.
• Share your work with others.
• Print out cartoon faces you like.
• Check out faces created by other site users and rate them.
• See winner faces as voted by community.
• No signup needed.
• Similar website: BeFunky.

Check out FaceMaker @ www.channel4.com/makingfaces

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• beFunky: Cartoonize Your Photos and Videos
• WittyGraphy: Online Caricature Community
• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime
• TV-Links

The layout of the site is simple and you won’t find any shiny stuff. However, as I mentioned, it is targeted at a specific set of internet users – those who love watching anime, and I am sure they will find the site useful and fun to navigate through. Most of anime episodes list several alternative links, so if one fails for some reason you can instantly try the other one.

Check out CrawlAnime @ www.crawlanime.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Additionally readers are able to subscribe to, rate and leave comments on any comic strip, bookmark and share strips with others, and embed them onto their blogs or personal web pages.

Features:

• Subscribe to daily comic strips and improve strips with your own punch line.
• Share strips with others by email.
• Embed strips you like onto your blog or online profile page (see below).
• Rate and comment on comic strips created by others.
• Browse through most popular strips.
• Currently users are able to edit only the endings, but option to edit full comic coming soon.
• Watch animated Dilbert strips.
• Get full access to the previously published Dilbert comics.

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Additional features such as inserting characters, dialog, props, symbols, and backgrounds, colors, flipping, rotating, resizing, zooming, scene cropping, copy and pasting expressions, props, and scenes are also available. Once you’ve created your first strip, you can allow others to expand your comic strip, while leaving the original intact. On the community side, you can share your strips with others, check out strips created by other users, rate and comment on comics.

Features

• Build comic strips and invite others to add to them.
• Easy to use comic editor with lots of features.
• Share your comics with others by publishing them on Pixton.
• Embedding: Embed cartoon strips onto your blog or personal web page.
• Subscribe to Pixton RSS feeds and get latest Pixton comics delivered to your feedreader.
• Subscribe to comics by author or tag of your choice.
• Browse comics by Recent, Most Popular, Highest Rated or Random comics.

Check out Pixton @ [ www.pixton.com ]

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• Dilbert : Create your Dilbert Comic Strips
• WittyGraphy: Online Caricature Community

Feature List:

• Watch movies, TV shows, cartoons and other popular TV content online.
• Browse videos by category: TV shows, Moves, Cartoons, Documentaries, Music Videos, Live Streams, Anime, Bollywood, Sport, and StandUp Comedy.
• Watch videos in Full-screen mode.
• Download and save full-length videos to your PC.
• Follow-up on latest QSS additions from a feedreader. Each QSS category (Movies, TV Shows, … ) has its own RSS feed.
• QuickSilverScreen Toolbar (Firefox, Internet Explorer): QSS Search, Google video search, search multiple movie forums, torrent search, one-click access to your QSS profile, RSS feed with latest QSS additions, and more.
• Contribute by submitting new videos.
• Site Stats : About 4000 ready-to stream videos and almost 200.000 registered members.
• QSS TV Channels: Watch regular TV Channels online. News channels, movie channels, lifestyle, music (ex. MTV), kids channels, Sports (ex. ESPN), Shopping channels (Shop NBC, Gems TV, … ) , Reality channels (Emergency, Police, …), and more.

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Check out QuickSilverScreen @ www.quicksilverscreen.com

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• Alluc
• Watch-Movies: Watch Full-Length Movies Online
• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime

• Create avatar of South Park characters.
• Customize avatars: jackets, colors, accessories, eyes, haircuts, shoes, skin color, hats, etc.
• Save avatar to your PC (using “Print Screen” button).

Check out Sp-Studio @ www.sp-studio.de

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• FaceMaker: Make Cartoon Face of Yourself
• beFunky: Cartoonize Your Photos and Videos
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• VideoHybrid: Stream Movies, Cartoons & Anime
• TV-Links

beFunky Features

• Turn your photos into digital paintings and comic style animated cartoons.
• Convert videos into cartoons (see demo below).
• Create and enhance cartoonized avatars: Choose between different background scenes, clothes and accessories, hairstyles, etc.
• Warp tool: push and pull any area of an image (enlarge lips, reduce nose size, etc.).
• Get a black and white pencil drawing of any photo.
• Embed your beFunky stuff on your blog or profile pages.
• Invite up to 100 friends to beFunky.
• Ask for tips and suggestions from beFunky community.

Cartoon Version of the Movie “300″ (using beFunky.com)

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• ResizR
• ReflectionMaker: Generate Images Reflections
• RapidPik: Free Online Photo Resizer and Hoster

VideoHybrid Features

• Watch Movies, TV Shows, Cartoons, Anime and episodes online.
• Browse video content by category: Movies, TV Shows, Anime, and Cartoons
• View ‘Most Popular’, ‘Recently added’, videos.
• Request videos and earn points by fulfilling requests. (see ‘Most requested’, ‘Newly requested’)
• Get notified by email as soon as requested video is found.
• For each video listing see: it’s rating score, short overview, and number of views.

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“ToonDoo is a unique way to get creative and expressive with comic strips.”

Feature Overview

• Create and Share comic strips (all tools provided).
• Browse comics by popularity (most popular, most viewed, most commented), random, etc..
• Subscribe to Top editor’s picks (via RSS)
• Embed favorite comic strips to your blog/website. (see below)
• Participate in comic strip contests.

Go to ToonDoo @ (www.toondoo.com)

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AniBOOM Features:

• Browse animations by category (funny, drama, music video’s etc), popularity (top rated, most viewed, recent etc), individual users, or by animation series (produced by joint-effort of AniBOOM users).
• Create and share animations and let other users rate and comment on them.
• Subscribe to new animations via RSS (featured, latest, by category (funny, crappy, drama, music, etc.).
• Take part in AniBOOM animation competitions.
• Add favorite cartoons to your profile (MySpace, Hi5, Friendster, Xanga, FaceBook, etc.) or embed them on your blog or website.
• Animations can be created using AniBOOM’s easy-to-use Shapeshifter program (no download or installation needed).
• Follow-up on latest happenings in Animation industry via AniBOOM Journal.

See some of the AniBOOM animations below

Check out AniBOOM @ (www.aniboom.com)

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• MakeBeliefsComix: Online Comic Strip Generator

Features

• Browse videos by category: TV Shows, Anime, Movies, Music Videos, Sport Videos and Documentaries.
• Within each category sort by ‘New’ links, ‘Top 20′ or ‘Genre’ (this option only applicable to movies, sports and documentaries)
• Alternatively you can check out what’s popular by seeing ‘most viewed’.
• Huge database.

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Features

• Categories: Movies, TV Shows, Cartoons, Sports, Comedy, Anime, Music videos, Misc and Your Vids.
• Most Viewed Section
• Browse in-category videos by letters or relevant subcategories (Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi, etc.)
• Submit videos and report broken links

Visit Peekvid

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