Anyone Can Animate Movies Now

Kind of. One of the guys at work introduced me to Xtranormal, a website that allows people to easily create animated movie clips. All you have to do is type in your script, dress up the characters, add emotions/movements (choices are limited), fiddle with the cameras a little (if you want) and you're done. Click here to see my first movie (the embed code doesn't work for some reason).

This is one of the powers of cloud computing. Animation takes a lot of processing power, so you need a fairly robust computer to do it. I created this with a tiny little Macbook that can run a little more than a handful of programs at the same time properly. The trick is that the website's servers does all the processing and rendering for you. This makes these sorts of applications available to more people in general and it's more efficient in terms of costs too. I don't have to buy a massively powerful computer to do something like this.