The current power of smartphones allows you to retouch any image, create videos and carry out all kinds of editing. Something that can be used to create almost professional or leisure content. This is exactly what SKIT! proposes, although with certain nuances. It is an application that allows the user to create animated shorts from images, photographs and other elementsAll this so that the limit is set only by the creativity of the user.
SKIT! is primarily an editing application for recording short videos with images and elements on the screen, something like animated shorts and with sound. But it also has overtones of social network by having a gallery of shorts from other users to explore, use, rate and comment on. All this through a complete and powerful tool that offers a large number of options to the most creative users when it comes to devising stories.
Just start the application and click on the central icon to access the main screen, where two options are opened for the user. On the left is the section Explore, where you can see the videos of other usersIn addition, they are ordered by different categories to find the best valued, the latest, the ones that are trending”¦ The surprising thing is that, in addition to being able to reproduce them, the user can remix themand use them as inspiration to develop your own story.
However, the really interesting thing is in the Create option on the main screen. Here the user can create his short from scratch. Just choose a background image for the scene and select characters. The positive point is that these can be the default ones of SKIT! or choose from the terminal's photo gallery any image of your own. And it is that the application gives the possibility of cutting and creating your own characters from the photographs, as well as adding freehand drawings and other issues.
Once all the elements have been selected, it's time to record. With a maximum duration of 20 seconds, the user only has to press the record button and start moving the characters around the scene at will. The application collects each movement in addition to the sound, if you want to do a dubbing of the scene at a time.It also has all kinds of effects to give dynamism to the scene, such as animating the characters so that they are not static even though they are part of an image. All this while being able to perform the pinch gesture to enlarge and emphasize situations and move characters around the scene. Once the recording is finished, all that remains is to share the result, being able to apply effects such as rain, snow, change the light. It is possible to share the result through SKIT! or other social networks like YouTube,Facebook, Twitter”¦ but also download the resulting video to send it by other means.
In short, a most curious and powerful application that has just landed on the Android platform after passing through iPhone and iPad The good thing is that it is completely downloadable free , being able to acquire more content from the application itself.It is available through Google Play and App Store
