Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says Jean-Francois Boudier, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO, access to the API was dependent on requirements definition, commercial proposal, negotiation, contracts, signatures, etc.

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Stupeflix Reworks Video Creation API Access To Commoditize Video Creation

Erick Tran has been the lead artist on the blockbuster TV series The Simpsons for 15 years.  Now, he looks to get funding for his new animated web series , “Urban Reggie,” through Kickstarter , a site where people can learn about a creative project and decide whether they want to donate money to it in return for incentives, and general happiness that they might get from helping out.  Through Kickstarter, people have total control over their projects.  The challenge: “Urban Reggie” needs to collect $100,000 before November 8 or else the funding doesn’t come through. “Urban Reggie” is about two brothers, Reggie and Pepe, trying to make it in Hollywood by any means necessary.  It will focus on all the crazy stuff that they try to do just to earn a living, before hopefully they become stars.  Humor will be found in the two trying to acclimate themselves in a new town, especially one as distinctive as Hollywood.  Of course, the two don’t have any real talent and will find getting by in such a place to be extremely difficult.  Here’s Tran’s pitch for the series on Kickstarter: Tran has worked as an assistant director, animator, story artist, merchandising designer, and video game consultant for The Simpsons , and he’s going to have a crack team of Emmy-award winning artists and animators on this show if it gets off the ground.  I would hope that the people Tran knows within the Simpsons universe could help him out if things start looking bleak.  I mean, even with all the pay cuts that have been happening on the show in the past month, those guys aren’t exactly hurting.  Anyway, it will be nice to see Tran hit his goal and hopefully we’ll get to see his unique vision soon.

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Simpsons Lead Artist Looks To Launch Animated Web Series Through Kickstarter

In response to the current election environment and just in time for the big GOP Debate on CNN (October 18), GoAnimate today released 20 unique (and amazingly accurate) animated character depictions of all the major political players in the Presidential race.  This includes eight of the current GOP candidates, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Congressman Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, and political media figures. GoAnimate Gets Political Without downloading anything or drawing, users can create custom animations of their favorite (or least favorite) candidates.

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GoAnimate Lets Video Marketers Create Political Humor, Satire, and Entertainment

I have known about WeVideo for a couple weeks now and have been bursting to tell you all about it. I mean really, when something this cool comes along, embargoes get in the way of my enthusiasm. I did mention a brief bullet point or two to a couple people and now I can let the whole herd of cats out of the proverbial bags because WeVideo is ready to explode your video editing workflow, and you should let it! I travel for GDN and I often find myself with gigabytes of video that I can’t do anything with because I generally travel as light as possible, which usually means just an Acer Aspire One netbook.

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WeVideo Brings Cloud-Powered, Collaborative Video Editing To Almost Any Device

Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it to co-exist with HTML5.

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Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

Okay, this is some pretty cool news. Google has just released a new product to Labs, called Swiffy . It’s purpose

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Google Swiffy Will Swiftly Convert Flash Files into HTML5

With Common Craft , RSA and other explainer videos going viral across the web, animated videos have gained popularity as a fun and effective way for businesses to quickly explain their product or service. Video alone already has a big advantage over plain text – we know, for instance, that viewers retain 58% more of what they see versus what they read

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5 Tips to Help Maximize the Impact of Animated Web Videos

We’re living in a world that’s more connected than ever before; Phineas Fogg’s “Around the World In We’re living in a world that’s more connected than ever before; Phineas Fogg’s “Around the World In 80 days” seems laughable to us, as we’re able to circumnavigate the world in split seconds thanks to the power of the Internet. This arena opens up opportunities that continually stretch the limits of our imagination. One of the greatest possibilities has been easily marketing your company to groups across country borders: Here are seven and a half tips to do just that.

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7 and a Half Tips for Building an International Audience

We know there are people to say – “Flash is not good for e-commerce website design”.

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Flash Based e-Commerce Website? No Need to Compromise on SEO Benefits

Clickable video poses exciting opportunities for the future of video. Video is projected to continue its dominance of web traffic, largely because it’s a much more engaging and connected form of communication than written word.

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5 Tips for Creating Effective Interactive & Clickable Videos