We LOVE the Zu3D Animation Kit – Review & Giveaway!
We love the Zu3D Animation Kit – now you can be in with a chance to win one too! See further down for how to enter!
We were really lucky to be sent the fabulous Zu3D Animation Kit last month. It came at the perfect time if I’m honest. We arrived home from our little break to find it had been delivered and was ready and waiting for us.
The children had really been looking forward to trying this kitout. My eldest has previously had a stop-motion kit and had so much fun but the one he had was quite limited. I showed him the Zu3D kit online and he was really excited! He had loads of ideas about the type of movie he wanted to make.
What is stop-motion?
Stop-motion is a filming technique that’s used to make static figures appear as if they’re moving. The appearance of movement is made by repeatedly capturing images and moving the characters slightly in between each frame. The frames are then pieced together, sound can be added, and the movie is complete!
It actually takes quite a lot of frames to make up just one second of movement.
The Zu3D Animation Kit
The Zu3D Animation Kit is geared up perfectly for kids. The instructions in the Animation Handbook are really bright and easy to follow and my 10 year-old had no trouble getting started & showing us how to get started. The set includes a quick “Getting Started” sheet (very helpful!), an Animation Handbook, Zu3D software, webcam, green screen, background and coloured plasticine.
The kids both had different ideas on what they wanted to do, so we decided they’d both do their own stop-motion movies. Little Miss wanted to stick broadly to the ideas given in the instruction manual and put her own spin on it. She loved the penguin they made and promptly made her own using the plasticine included.
Admittedly she had a little trouble creating it but she persevered and she was really happy with her “Penny the Penguin”.
She also created a duck and her Dad mucked in and made Morph too. Little Miss’s film is still a work in progress, but so far Penny the Penguin has met Darcy Duck and Morph, she’s managed to move them across the screen using the captured frames and they’ve sat down for a chat together. I think she’s got hours of fun ahead of her finishing this off!
Big Man wanted to use lego characters for his masterpiece. He wanted to create a news report with a bit of humour added in! He’s added a lot more detail than his younger sister with a moving opening and he’s also made his own background! The opening frames are fantastic and he figured out how to do this all on his own! The words move across the screen from the top left-hand corner and bounce around the screen before finishing in the centre and fading into his news report. It’s fab!
His news report was all about a burglar that was on the run. He added lots of funny touches with the burglar poking his head in front of the camera and seeming to go un-noticed by the reporter. It was very funny to watch and lovely to see him using his imagination. At his age, it’s often difficult to get him to just play but this really encouraged him. He also let his younger sister join in with the voice-over and it was so nice to watch them working together and giggling away!
So, if you’d like to get a kit of your own (maybe stash it away for Christmas or a birthday), you can find them here, or, you can enter to win a free kit below!
Competition!
Now you can enter to win a Zu3D Animation Kit of your own! Simply enter the competition via Rafflecopter below. The winner will be announced in the first week of October! UK entries only. No cash alternative will be offered. Good luck!
This looks like great fun! Would go down well as an xmas gift for the kids
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This looks like so much fun! Sounds like your kids have gotten really creative with it too 🙂
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this looks a lot of fun . . . andeducational too
Great giveaway thank you!
My son would enjoy making and creating this as something different
this looks fun im sure my nephew would love this x
Wonderful prize for kids, spark their imagination
Fantastic idea and kit, great for any one.
My son joined an after school animation club at his primary school this year and loved it so this would be very enjoyable to try at home.
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I saw these at the ideal home show and the line up to have a turn on one was too long! Technology is so amazing! Def something added to the childrens xmas list!
I have always wanted to try this! My sons would love it too – fingers crossed we are the lucky winners! xx
What a fab prize to win
Yes please! X
I can see my son having hours of fun. Wonderful prize.?
great giveaway! fingers crossed
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My son would love this.
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If I won, I’d give mine to my local primary school.
My daughter, nieces and nephew would love this, it look so fun and something even I would put some time into having a go with
This looks brilliant
Great idea to keep my son busy!
Looks great….Thanks
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This looks fantastic! My eldest would love to win it!
Lovely giveaway thank you perfect for the up coming longer dark evenings
Wow I can imagine my 9 year old twins being facinated by this for hours, I think I’d have a play with it to, its a brilliant idea!
An amazingly fun way to get into animation.
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Nice piece of kit, interesting, thank you.
This looks so much fun and great for using their imaginations <3
This looks amazing
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How cool is this!!
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What an amazing prize! Never seen anything like this it looks so easy and simple to use unlike the other programs for animation which is FAR to complicated!
Wow this would be amazing thank you for the chance!
So cool, count me IN!
My grandson and his dad would have hours of fun with this
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Brilliant prize. Fingers crossed.
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This looks like so much fun and amazing for getting children to be more creative. My daughter would love this
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Wow! Looks like great fun!
Perfect fun for my nephew
Perfect fun for my nephew
What a brilliant idea and I bet you can get very inventive with props and materials to use
nice comp
looks like fun, my grandkids would love this
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this looks absolutely fab i would love to give this a try with the kids
Oooo we could have some family fun with this xxx
My son would adore this!
What a super prize – I know my grandchildren would love this.
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My teenager would absolutely love this!! It’s right up her street x
I’d love to win this for my grandson 🙂
This looks fantastic fun for the whole family.
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Fingers crossed!
Looks like lots of fun
A great giveaway. Thanks.
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When I saw this competition, I just had to enter!
this looks fab amd great fun to do with the grandchildren
This looks great for ARTY fun that is so WRITE for my son. Thanks for the chance xxx
What fun this looks. I would love to win it for my great niece in South Africa. She is very creative and would make some awesome animations.
This looks great fun!
Great competition! Fingers crossed!
Thanks for the great prize and competition! Good luck everyone.
This looks like a great fun project to get all the family involved with!