Muvizu is a fun, easy to use 3D animation tool. It aims to engage and inspire children, young adults and teachers in a world of creative story-telling.
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Key features
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Customisable 3D characters
There’s 17 base character models that can be adapted to create the perfect actor for all the roles in your movie. You can change facial features, eyes and hairstyles. You can re-colour everything, and can even add your own uploaded textures for true individuality.
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Customisable 3D scenes
We provide 80 pre-designed scenes where you can place your characters and direct your action, from Chemistry laboratories to the Wild West! If you are feeling creative you can custom build your own set from the thousands of objects in the parts library, or even import your own.
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Live motion
Have your characters walk or run around the scene by simply dragging them where you want them to go. They will follow your cursor as it moves and their motion is simply and easily recorded. You can edit it all in the timeline later to get the timing and action perfect.
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Extensive action library
To bring your characters to life there is a library of over 3000 animated actions that you can dip into to make your character happy or sad, demonstrative or shy. Load your chosen actions then play your scene and direct the action live, just like a real director does!
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Automatic Lip synching
Record the dialogue in your script and your Muvizu actors will read it back to you! The automatic lip-synch will match any language or accent. This is where your Muvizu creations really come alive. Record your tracks directly in Muvizu or load them from an external source.
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Create movie files
Save as a simple AVI movie file, or as a PNG sequence for increased quality. You can break the scene into layers to allow for some clever post-processing, like adding special effects. Create and share with your friends and fellow students by uploading your finished movie to the Muvizu gallery.
For students
An intuitive introduction to the complex world of animated movie making.
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Produce creative work
Everyone’s vision is different. Muvizu lets you express yourself in your own individual way.
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Explore ideas
It’s so easy to change things in Muvizu that you can experiment and try things out until you create your perfect scene.
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Record your experiences
Muvizu makes movies! A perfect medium to record your progress and then share your final movie.
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Learn digital art
3D is everywhere. Muvizu is an introduction to the creative process that shapes most of our TV and films.
For teachers
An ideal, affordable tool to achieve your desired learning outcomes, in an enjoyable way.
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Evaluate creative work
Muvizu projects are easy to play through and assess, even before you ever output a movie.
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Guide progress
Movie making in Muvizu is structured and sequential, making it easy to progress through known creative steps.
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Adaptable to ability
There are many ways to successfully use Muvizu. Advanced features can be introduced as students’ progress.
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Technical and creative
Muvizu pushes the students to increase their imaginative expression and also their computer skills.
Educational packs
Muvizu encourages students to create, invent and experiment in real time.
We already have a big library of general content available to draw on to tell your story. In response to requests from schools, colleges and universities we will continue to add carefully designed educational content to it! All content will be structured specifically to enable, enhance and harness the potential of budding artists.
There will be two themes to the educational packs: Support for curriculum subject areas, and Interesting historical or cultural periods. All educational content packs will include clothing for characters, objects and accessories, textures, an environment plus all sorts of other components to create a complete scene, e.g., building parts, trees etc.
COMING SOON
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Sets
The range of pre-built sets is always expanding. We will be pairing up new historical and cultural sets to complement the new characters and clothing packs.
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Characters
The first of the new character packs we have been working on is now here! This first Asian set will soon be followed by more Indian, African-American and Caucasian characters.
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Clothing
Now these new characters are available we are going to give you all sorts of ways to dress them up with clothing packs. Many Historical and culturan styles will be made avaliable.
Blog
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Our visit to CCG in Shanghai
As many of you will know, we recently returned from an incredibly successful trip to Shanghai where the First Minister of Scotland opened our first training centre. As part of our trip we had also planned to have a presence at CCG, which is an annual 5 day 'comic-con' style show where animation enthusiasts meet, go to massive efforts to dress up as their favourite anime characters and sample the latest products.
This was Meshmellow's first outing at CCG showcasing Muvizu and the new Chinese version, so we were extremely excited to be taking part, alongside our Chinese partners, Pikatoons.
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New products showcased at BETT 2017
We are thrilled to announce our attendance for the second year running at the BETT Education Show. This year we will be showcasing two new products – Minimaker, our 3D printing app and Voxelise, 3D modeling made easy. This latest software simplifies the modeling process with little cubes called voxels.
Live demonstrations will be available at the stand (C401) and of course an opportunity to meet the team of developers and artists at Meshmellow.
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Talent abounds!
St. Mary's Primary School and Nursery Class (ages 4 to 12, for our international users) held a board games design competition. On Friday 2nd December, Meshmellow were asked to help judge the grand finale.
There were 4 very strong contenders. "Stranded" walked away with top prize, where you are all stranded on a desert island, with a variety of dangerous animals - as if being stranded on a desert island wasn't enough of a problem! - the goal of the game is to reach the radio transmitter and call for help.
Well done to everyone that took part! We were incredibly excited to witness so much talent on our door step. Once again, Congratulations!
Jamie Hill
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3 Positive outcomes for Special Needs Learning with Muvizu Education
1. Muvizu Education encourages play. Playing is an incredibly powerful gift to give to children of any age or ability.
2. Decision making skills. The many strands of animation – from character development, lighting, sounds, dialogue, story line – all of these elements means choices need to be made – so that means decision making is a must.
3. Communication skills. Enables greater communication between themselves, with other children and to adults – especially teachers and parents.
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Back to Shanghai
Paul Collimore, Commercial Director at Muvizu holds a language class in Shanghai using our 3D interactive software, Muvizu Education.
On one of our recent trips to Shanghai, Muvizu Education was used to explain and explore the use of language with huge success. The children loved using the animation software to tell their own stories and share their learnings on language.
The children took to the technology effortlessly and great results were achieved whilst plenty of fun was had - a perfect combination for learning!
support@meshmellow.cn
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Award winning Muvizu!
We are honoured to announce our recent award winning success in Shanghai!
Muvizu, or rather Man Xiang Jai - walked away from the PSPE show (Popular Science Products Expo) with best new product, best value product and popular booth award! We are so pleased that Muvizu was celebrated and recognised in such highly competitive categories.
The PSPE show is dedicated to the science industry. Its key aim is to promote and celebrate the science industry and to engage the general public in new and exciting inventions.
2016 is looking to be an exciting year!
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The word is starting to spread!
Jim Stoneleigh, Head of Computing at Hele's School, Plymouth:
Muvizu was easy to install and there have not been any technical issues. The Introduction & rapid cartoon creation video was shown to all KS3 Computing students to encourage them to join an after school animation club. The club is full of keen and wide-eyed Year 7/8 students wanting to use Muvizu to create their animations.
In the past, I have used Flash and Scratch software to teach animation, but Muvizu makes it a lot easier, as the website has many videos which the students watch before trying it out for themselves. The software is intuitive and students will pick it up by trial and error, or by helping each other. Using this software in a club setting is very easy to do, as there is no need to prepare resources
Jim Stoneleigh
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Get in touch
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