KoolMoves

KoolMove makes Flash animation easy. It is suited for animated web pages, banners, navigation systems, and intro pages. It lets you combine and manipulate text, images, shapes, and sounds to create Flash movies.

Pros: KoolMoves is a really handy tool for flash animation. One can configure it to one’s skill levels, basic, advanced etc. That is a good move on the part of the developers.

Whether a professional or a beginner if your job is to create rich interactive content for web sites, this is a tool that has the necessary tools yet is quite affordable. Whether the need is for multimedia slide shows, banners, navigation systems or a high impact web page, they could be produced with the help of this tool easily.

A rich set of effects that can be applied to text and images, are available for professional presentation. Flash 8 action scripts, video/MP3 players and interface components are available too that professional can use.

KoolMoves has extensive controls for making elaborate mini movies. Morphing and mixing of audio file (WAV or MP3) are possible. To make cartooning easy, this has tweening features. Bones feature add to the value for creating animated figures. Applying a skeleton with defined joints one can set various moves of the characters quite easily.

User interface is very well designed with the menus and icons set on the top of the screen. Tools, as applicable to the context add to this easy to manipulate interface. Nice and intuitive to use, besides the help is very useful.

Cons: Nothing problematic noted.

Overall a certain 5 star performer.

Used by both professionals and novices to create rich interactive content for web sites, KoolMoves is a popular Flash authoring tool with rave industry reviews! Combining ease-of-use with a wealth of powerful animation effects, KoolMoves makes it easy and inexpensive to create professional quality animations for web sites. As Adobe Flash(R) has developed into the standard for animation on the web, KoolMoves has emerged as an advanced but low cost alternative to Flash. It features libraries of text effects, Flash templates, and clip art. For advanced users, it has Flash AS1/AS3 action scripting and components. In addition, Koolmoves now exports as AVI/MP4 and iOS friendly Html5 with jQuery Mobile widgets.